Thanks for the post and comments
Allepo (I believe that’s its name) is a city where much of the action is taking place has a population the size of Chicago. John Bachelor did an informative piece on this last week where the discussion ranged from tribes as well as religious sects including Christians who are supporting Assad .
Aleppo is an old city .... anyone wanting an idea of what it used to be like back in the 1930's before all the hate and discontent, might pick up a copy of In Aleppo Once by Taqui Altounyan, an Anglo-Franco-Syrian woman whose mother's name was Collingwood.