Aleppo like Grozny, Syria unlike Chechnya (Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera)

"The most dangerous place here is the hospital. You arrive, and it's the first thing they tell you: if you want to feel safe, stay at the front," wrote the Italian journalist Francesca Borri in the opening of her book, Syrian Dust, reporting from the heart of the battle for Aleppo.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/aleppo-grozny-syria-chechnya-160509065831412.html