A coalition of jihadist fighters conquered the country's second city in four days.
Still in shock, the inhabitants of Aleppo are rediscovering life under the authority of the rebels who took it back on Friday from the loyalist forces of Bashar al-Assad. “ We were all terrified on Saturdayconfides Wissam, reached by telephone this Sunday. In the early hours, many fled the city, and others hid in their homes. Then we started to go out, we saw insurgents manning roadblocks and asking us for our identity papers, but they were not aggressive “, he congratulates himself.
The Christian minority was surprised by the apparent benevolence of the new masters of Syria's second city. « When the Islamists conquered Idlib about ten years ago, they attacked the Christians, but for the moment this is not the case in Aleppo »explains another resident of the large city in the northwest of the country, contacted via WhatsApp. “ In the street, the bearded men tell us that they have nothing against us, that they are there to change the system…
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