<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - tales-of</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/tales-of</link><description>Newsvine - tales-of</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:11:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 07:26:12 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Aleppans stretched to limit in war for Syrian city</title>
<description><![CDATA[The rumble of engines in the sky immediately set the Aleppo neighborhood below on edge. Men peeked from shops anxiously at the Syrian warplane circling slowly overhead. Housewives emerged on balconies to gauge whether they were about to be hit. But the kids hanging out on the street were unfazed. One kept dribbling his basketball.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hamza Hendawi]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Hamza Hendawi]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/23/14648236-aleppans-stretched-to-limit-in-war-for-syrian-city</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/23/14648236-aleppans-stretched-to-limit-in-war-for-syrian-city</guid><category>syria</category><category>world-news</category><category>ml</category><category>aleppo</category><category>of-aleppo</category><category>tales-of</category><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:45:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4894e1e5-1d58-48ed-bda6-23c2cf9fc4f5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4894e1e5-1d58-48ed-bda6-23c2cf9fc4f5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian street vendor sits in front of his birds in Shaar district in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ac8c41f3-2b1c-4682-83cd-4d16ce110a0f.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ac8c41f3-2b1c-4682-83cd-4d16ce110a0f.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a general view of damaged buildings from shelling in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5ceca95c-6763-4b73-9104-c8f8a24b4cec.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5ceca95c-6763-4b73-9104-c8f8a24b4cec.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 photo, a Syrian boy rides his bike in Karma Jabl district in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=48259d67-47cf-4a5a-8716-60a10aabcfb3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=48259d67-47cf-4a5a-8716-60a10aabcfb3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian man sleeps in the basement of a building for protection from Syrian government forces shelling in Shaar district in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going.(AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9b7e3951-fa75-4521-9b16-96e527a193c2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9b7e3951-fa75-4521-9b16-96e527a193c2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter cleans a main street in Shaar district in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ef135223-68eb-4029-8e15-443421333873.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ef135223-68eb-4029-8e15-443421333873.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian doctor sleeps in the waiting room of Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fa728852-a0ce-4c24-847c-5d4ae45b5e17.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fa728852-a0ce-4c24-847c-5d4ae45b5e17.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian boy sleeps on a sidewalk near Karma Jabl district in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going.(AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ae40fac5-eb43-40ea-a688-b351bea03262.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ae40fac5-eb43-40ea-a688-b351bea03262.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian man loads his truck with his belongings before fleeing Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a7699f60-d1e7-47c5-90a1-a23e88c35c4c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a7699f60-d1e7-47c5-90a1-a23e88c35c4c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a street filled with debris in Shaar district, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4aaf8848-e1dd-4c09-9b3f-562a3d7fbf4f.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4aaf8848-e1dd-4c09-9b3f-562a3d7fbf4f.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, Syrian men stand in line to buy bread in Shaar district in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9f900f73-43d7-4748-a299-dc3cfec86e3f.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9f900f73-43d7-4748-a299-dc3cfec86e3f.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian youth stands inside his bakery shop in Shaar district in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=824d8ff0-4476-4ab7-986e-3ff55e78fb04.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="282" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=824d8ff0-4476-4ab7-986e-3ff55e78fb04.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, Syrian men sit in front of a street cafe in Shaar district in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=987da6b0-ef2a-4d28-b471-0efe0c450cbe.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=987da6b0-ef2a-4d28-b471-0efe0c450cbe.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 photo, a Syrian man runs for cover from sniper fire in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e2ac0bb5-34c8-4857-bebd-2e00f96781cb.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e2ac0bb5-34c8-4857-bebd-2e00f96781cb.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian man walks past closed shops in Shaar district in Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going.(AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=09d3c3b3-fb5e-450c-8775-4106bc166c75.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=09d3c3b3-fb5e-450c-8775-4106bc166c75.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian street vendor reloads a fuel tank on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=41bbf704-c9e5-4039-9d5a-b984ca007dcf.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=41bbf704-c9e5-4039-9d5a-b984ca007dcf.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian man holds shrapnel in front of a building damaged by Syrian government shelling in Karmal Jabl district Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=59782fc6-dd68-4181-a4b4-c50e1d16c6a3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=59782fc6-dd68-4181-a4b4-c50e1d16c6a3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian vegetable vendor waits for customers on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. With death lurking around every corner, the survival instincts of Aleppo's population are being stretched to the limit every day as the battle between Syria's rebels and the regime of President Bashar Assad for the country's largest city stretches through its fourth destructive month. Residents in the rebel-held neighborhoods suffering the war's brunt tell tales of lives filled with fear over the war in their streets, along with an ingenuity and resilience in trying to keep their shattered families going. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>