--- title: Syria War: Bashar Assad's Forces Besiege Rebels in Aleppo description: The rebel-held section of Syrian city of Aleppo is now under siege, with disastrous consequences for the fight against Syria's Bashar Assad canonical: https://time.com/4405037/aleppo-siege-mainstream-rebels-bashar-assad/ author: Jared Malsin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-13T21:14:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:41:57.103Z article:section: World og:title: Syria War: Bashar Assad's Forces Besiege Rebels in Aleppo og:description: The rebel-held section of Syrian city of Aleppo is now under siege, with disastrous consequences for the fight against Syria's Bashar Assad og:url: https://time.com/4405037/aleppo-siege-mainstream-rebels-bashar-assad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c59a028ec972537/69889bdfcf40a8c4abc43fde/aleppo-syria-siege-assad.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Syrian civil war og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Syria War: Bashar Assad's Forces Besiege Rebels in Aleppo twitter:description: The rebel-held section of Syrian city of Aleppo is now under siege, with disastrous consequences for the fight against Syria's Bashar Assad twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c59a028ec972537/69889bdfcf40a8c4abc43fde/aleppo-syria-siege-assad.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Siege of Aleppo Could Spell Disaster for Rebels Fighting Syria's Bashar Assad > Sponsored content. 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Radi Suleiman first takes of the veil that covers her face and then the scarf that covers her head and throws both away from her. “When we used to wear it with our free will, it was beautiful. When it became obligatory and enforced it became despised_  by [Jared Malsin/Istanbul](https://time.com/author/jared-malsin/)  ## Jared Malsin/Istanbul Jul 13, 2016 9:14 PM UTC  Smoke rises after a Syrian helicopter assault force hit the Kafr Hamra village in northern Aleppo, Syria, on July 12, 2016. Smoke rises after a Syrian helicopter assault force hit the Kafr Hamra village in northern Aleppo, Syria, on July 12, 2016.Ahmed Muhammed Ali—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images  by [Jared Malsin/Istanbul](https://time.com/author/jared-malsin/)  ## Jared Malsin/Istanbul Jul 13, 2016 9:14 PM UTC The opposition-held section of the [Syrian city of Aleppo](http://time.com/4208886/aleppo-70000-displaced-syria-assad-russia-turkey/) is now effectively under siege, with [potentially disastrous consequences](http://time.com/4402242/syrian-rebels-aleppo-civilians-castello-road-assault/) for the five-year-old rebellion against the [regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad](http://time.com/4372813/us-diplomats-memo-obama-syria-policy-assad/). Forces loyal to Assad captured a key area overlooking the last remaining road into the eastern section of Aleppo on June 7, meaning they can cut the [only supply route](http://time.com/4402242/syrian-rebels-aleppo-civilians-castello-road-assault/) into the city with sniper or artillery fire. Rebel authorities have [stockpiled](http://news.trust.org/item/20160712153124-rzza8) food and other supplies for months, but if the siege continues, opposition figures say 300,000 people could be at [risk of starvation](http://time.com/4182021/syria-conflict-starvation-un-war-crime-madaya/). “This could last for a very long time, thereby basically replicating some of the scenarios that we’ve seen [in other areas](http://time.com/4216299/madaya-syria-humanitarian-united-nations/) in Syria like Hama in the past, in which the regime uses sieges and starvation as ways to break the populations in areas it is trying to control,” says Lina Khatib, the head of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House in London. **Read More:** [**U.S. Diplomats Call for Strikes Against Syrian President Assad**](http://time.com/4372813/us-diplomats-memo-obama-syria-policy-assad/) Once Syria’s largest city, Aleppo has been [emptied out by years of bombardment](http://time.com/3796316/behind-the-picture-aleppos-river-of-death/), but it remains the is the largest population center under the control of the mainstream rebel groups fighting both the Assad regime and extremist Islamic State militants. The encirclement of the city comes at a precarious moment for the rebels, who are also facing regime advances around Damascus. Government forces have been [closing](http://syriadirect.org/news/with-fewer-than-1000-remaining-darayya-rebels-%E2%80%98abandoned%E2%80%99-as-regime-advances) on the rebel-held town of Darayya, outside of the capital of Damascus. The antigovernment groups in control of the town have held out in spite of years of a [starvation-inducing siege](http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/07/12/484946410/the-siege-that-keeps-a-rebel-town-in-syria-desperate-for-food-aid?utm%5Fcampaign=storyshare&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fmedium=social). According to the United Nations, some 600,000 people are living under sieges in various pockets throughout Syria, the majority of them under blockade by pro-regime forces. The rebel-held section of Aleppo has now been added to the list of besieged areas, and that means no new supplies of food, medicine, and other vital supplies. It also means no relief for the tiny number of doctors serving a population facing fierce bombardment from pro-regime forces. As in other rebel-held towns, Aleppo’s physicians usually rotate in and out of the city, some of them crossing the border to Turkey when they are not working in overwhelmed emergency rooms. The hospitals themselves are also [frequent targets](http://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/syria-nobody-wants-live-near-hospital-aleppo) for government airstrikes. **Read More:** [**How Bashar Assad Is Trying to Win the Peace in Syria**](http://time.com/4248050/syria-truce-bashar-assad-strategy/) “Now, whoever is in will stay in. Whoever is out will stay out,” says Mohammad Yasser Tabbaa of the Syrian Expatriate Medical Association, a group working closely with doctors in Aleppo. “There are several storage areas in Aleppo for medical supplies that can last for several months, but if the regime manages to target them, then there will be a real serious issue.” Opposition authorities say they are already working on opening new routes into the city. One scenario is that rebel groups from the nearby city of Idlib could break the blockade, but it remains unclear whether the armed groups have the capacity to do so. The rebel groups that emerged from the popular uprising against Assad’s dictatorship in 2011 now face an existential threat. The rebels feel betrayed and abandoned by the Obama administration, which has offered some weapons and other support through a covert CIA-run program, but not enough to turn the tide of the war. In what the rebels see as the most recent act of abandonment in June, the U.S. military [diverted air support](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/07/06/u-s-jets-abandoned-syrian-rebels-in-the-desert-then-they-lost-a-battle-to-isis/) from a group of fighters who had just captured land from ISIS in southern Syria, leaving the group, the New Syrian Army, to be defeated by the jihadists. The U.S. sent the warplanes to bomb an ISIS convoy retreating from the Iraqi city of Fallujah, and Defense Secretary Ash Carter later admitted the U.S. has “missed an opportunity” to beat back ISIS. ### Suffering and Resilience: The Hospitals of Aleppo  Aug. 24, 2012\. A boy is treated by doctors and nurses after sustaining injuries from an airstrike in the Sha'ar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. Nicole Tung  Aug. 25, 2012\. A doctor walks through a badly damaged room in the Dar Al Shifaa hospital in Sha'ar. The hospital, clearly marked on the outside with crescents, has been the subject of targeted helicopter and fighter jet attacks at least three times by the Syrian Army. Nicole Tung  Aug. 24, 2012\. A doctor treats a boy's head wound after an airstrike hit his house. Nicole Tung  Aug. 24, 2012\. A boy is carried out of the operating room by a doctor after he is treated for wounds sustained in an airstrike. Nicole Tung  Aug. 24, 2012\. A civilian is treated by a nurse as he bleeds heavily from a head wound caused by shrapnel. Nicole Tung  Aug. 24, 2012\. Dr. Abu Ismail, center, attempts to save a patient with severe arterial bleeding in his leg after being hit by shrapnel in Sha'ar. Nicole Tung  Aug. 24, 2012\. A baby, just a few weeks old, is examined for injuries after an airstrike hit a house near his family's in Sha'ar. Nicole Tung  Aug. 24, 2012\. Waleed, 11, cries out in pain after he was injured in his side by shrapnel in the Ferdous neighborhood of Aleppo. Nicole Tung  Aug. 24, 2012\. A father of two wounded children cries in the hallway of the Dar al Shifa hospital in Sha'ar. Nicole Tung  Aug. 26, 2012\. The body of 15-year-old Fareed lays on a gurney after he was killed by shrapnel. Nicole Tung  Aug. 26, 2012\. The body of a civilian man lays uncollected in the alleyway behind the hospital in Sha'ar. Nicole Tung  Aug. 26, 2012\. A young man grieves over the death of his father, killed in the crossfire in Sha'ar. Nicole Tung  Aug. 23, 2012\. A civilian is treated by doctors after being wounded by shrapnel in Sha'ar. Nicole Tung  Aug. 26, 2012\. A man carries his wounded daughter. With its staff stretched to the breaking point as a rush of casualties came in, the father was told to take his daughter to another hospital for treatment. Nicole Tung  Aug. 24, 2012\. Ahmed, 12, waits with his uncle (right) near the body of his father, killed by a shell in Sha'ar. Ahmed, who saw his father die, was also wounded in his back by shrapnel. Nicole Tung With the U.S. and other Western governments focused on battling ISIS and other extremist groups like the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, the rebels are facing disaster. The deadly attack by ISIS on the main airport in Istanbul in June also threatens another major source of rebel support: Turkey. Ankara had been a staunch supporter of opposition groups, but a wave of bombings on Turkish soil means that Turkey could shift its priorities to battling the extremists, and away from aiding moderate rebels. As the influence of more moderate and nationalist-leaning groups wanes, Nusra has grown dramatically, taking in more than 3,000 fighters since February alone, according to a recent [report](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/06/al-qaeda-reaps-rewards-of-u-s-policy-failures-on-syria.html?via=desktop&source=twitter) from analyst Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute. Nor does it help that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is reported to be exploring coordination of air strikes with Russia. According to the [_Washington Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/as-kerry-pushes-for-coordination-with-russia-in-syria-others-in-administration-cry-foul/2016/07/12/83623008-484d-11e6-bdb9-701687974517%5Fstory.html), the proposal is designed to allow the two countries to more effectively target ISIS and Nusra. The rebels and some observers see the move as a capitulation to the Russia, which is a key supporter of the Assad regime. “They’re playing hardball, because they think the more hardball they play the more they’re going to get, and it’s happening,” says Emile Hokayem, a Syria analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, referring to Russia. “The U.S. unintentionally is making things worse.” If the siege of Aleppo continues, it could devastate Syria’s mainstream rebel groups, but it does not mean the Assad regime would decisively win the war. Jihadist groups would continue to fight on. Kurdish forces would maintain their hold on part of Syria. And individual rebel fighters would also continue to fight, but in a more diffuse, less organized way. “Even if the siege manages to break rebel groups as we know them, it will not put an end to insurgent activities against the regime. 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