NBC News producer Ghazi Balkiz is traveling in northern Syria with NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel. He took these photographs in Aleppo within the past week.(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121212-ghazi-syria%20(1).photoblog900.jpg)Ghazi Balkiz / NBC NewsRebels in Aleppo's old city sit 20 yards from Syrian army troops. The fighting in these narrow streets and alleys has reached a stalemate with neither side advancing or retreating. Rebels at this location told NBC News that they were so close to the enemy that they sometimes talk with the Syrian army soldiers.
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121212-ghazi-syria%20(4).photoblog900.jpg)Ghazi Balkiz / NBC NewsAleppo's Dar Al-Shifa hospital stands in ruins next to the rubble of a building that used to be next to it. Members of the Free Syrian Army told NBC News that the hospital was targeted because it was treating anti-Assad forces.
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