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I don't think the lede is the place for alleged events that one side of the conflict says is a total lie, while the other side relies on third-party reports and blames an unspecified Iraqi militia (not even the Syrian army). While it is very possibly something that happened, the death of 82 civilians
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that the real number of rebels might be 2-3,000 and the 10,000 is greatly exagerrated. Ofcourse, the infobox says 8,000. I think its possible that even that number is exaggerated, seeing as how there defences have collapsed. We can make the number in infobox as 2,000-8,000. But I don't know whether a
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I attempted to introduce information about where the refugees from Aleppo went, and discovered that the 130,000 figure in the infobox is not the only number. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports over 88,000. Further, they indicated about 35,000 went to rebel-controlled
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It has been reported that a newly formed brigade called 'Syrian National Resistance' (SNR) which is "a predominately Kurdish pro-government unit which spearheaded the capture of Aleppo Infantry School exactly one month ago. Notably, the SNR is a key player in improving regional relations between the
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Furthermore, even if foreign spies are operating in Aleppo, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are providing support to the rebels; they could just be doing what intelligence agents usually do, which is gathering information. Confirmation of these claims should be supported with additional, more
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An editor added a list of nations that allegedly support the rebels to the infobox. To back these claims, the editor referenced two Arab news sites that show the Syrian UN ambassador reading off a list of "foreign intelligence agents" training rebels in Aleppo. The claims of Assad's government are
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I have seen it mentioned again and again in news and even by politicians that civilians were "shot in their homes" and "children were burned alive", of course with no documentation at all. But seems an oversight these allegations are not mentioned here, at least they could be debunked if they turn
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in the final days before leaving the city. The lede should be for describing the broad strokes of what happened in the campaign. I'd be fine with including text saying that hundreds of civilians died, and that most of them were in the rebel-held side of the city, but I don't think that particular
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It is "alleged support" because only the Syrian government and (according to ANHA, the SDF propaganda outlet) a number of other sources accuse these governments to support and train the rebels. While I agree that the reliability of these accusations is dubious at best, when the Syrian government
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more space is given to the reports of massacres than to the denials. (7 lines vs 5 on my screen, 4 sources vs 2). If the Rudskoi quote is too long, trim it. Further, I note your use of the word "actual" - when the alleged event(s) are disputed. In the current situation, where both sides are
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The info box gives a number of 130,000 (sourced to the Bangkok Post, indirectly to SOHR) - can we get a better number? Can we give separate number for those who fled to government held territory, from those who evacuated to rebel-held territory? The distinction would be meaningful.
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is simply not a notable event compared to the capture of half a city with over 100,000 civilians and thousands of rebel fighters. Dozens of civilians in Western Aleppo also died from indiscriminate rocket attacks fired by the rebels into civilian areas, while rebels allegedly
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It seems kurds and army are unified against common foe in north east aleppo with joint armed units with even sub-branches :"The SNR is formed out of the 'Kafr Saghir Martyrs Brigade' " So I recommend adding orange in template and new allied units in battle pages
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msakr99 I would say the situation by itself is contradictory, as the evacuation collapsed, we get back tot he point that the city is not fully cleared, however strategically from a military perspective, the city have fallen.
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more space is given to denials of these massacres than to covering the actual massacres. The Russian guy is quoted at length which is clearly UNDUE. The info on the Red Cross is cited to TASS, which is not a reliable source.
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usually ambiguous/biased to begin with, so the only confirmation of the presence of these agents is Assad's own accusations against NATO, Gulf States, and Israel (nations which Assad has always blamed for the war).
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Is it the case that your concerns are not about the broad narrative of the battle, but the allegations of war crimes on either side? Then it would make sense to move the templates to the sections in question.
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as a blurb, meaning it is at the top of the Knowledge (XXG) news section as "Aleppo Captured". This article does not mention a victory in the info-box but has the status under the "Final stage" section. -
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Only one sentence in regard to this in that section, and its a Russian claim (not totally reliable) that the Army is in control of the city, while also noting the last rebels haven't evacuated yet.
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incident should be specified in the lede. It's not an important enough event by itself, and it is controversial (on the other hand, the facts of my proposed text to replace it with are
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universally-accepted Western news sources, before concluding that both parts of this claim (that agents are present in Aleppo, and that they are training rebels) are true.
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officially claims their involvement in this battle that warrants mentioning. Meanwhile, by adding "alleged", it is made clear that these claims are not necessarily true.
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territory, and some 53,000 registered in government-controlled territory. I included a malformed link. Perhaps someone could format this correctly:
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Unless you can point us to the RS/N threads concluding that Al-Masdar and TASS are "non-reliable", there really is nothing to discuss here.
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out to be baseless propaganda to buy the rebels time (which I highly suspect). Many people probably come to this page to look that up.
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Now that the campaign is complete, what happened to civilians (both displacement and casualties) belong in the aftermath section.
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http://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/syrian-arab-republic-aleppo-situation-report-no-10-23-december-2016
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more general page (I am not sure), it still can be included on this page on the more narrowly defined subject.
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https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-captures-first-village-turkish-backed-rebels-outskirts-al-bab/
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frequently actually (correct word here) lying, it is important that editors doubt easy narratives.
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A news item involving Aleppo offensive (November–December 2016) was featured on Knowledge (XXG)'s
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they have the post that says "Aleppo Captured" with users being directed to this article. -
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That's just absolute nonsense. I'm embarrassed for you posting such tripe.
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The Inside Source, which by the way is neutral and trustable, stated in a
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tweet should be used. Their news website doesn't publish news anymore.
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Tweet by The Inside Source regarding number of rebels being exaggerated
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