The battle for control over Syria’s commercial capital, the city of Aleppo, arrived on July 19th, 2012 as part of the wider Syrian civil war engulfing most regions of the country today. The most prominent rebel group fighting in Aleppo is the Free Syrian Army, an organisation largely composed of army defectors and volunteers. Two years later from the beginning of the conflict more than 70.000 people have died according to the United Nations, most of them are civilians.
