You wouldn't know it from the lack of media attention, but a major city is being destroyed in Syria.
The country's largest city, Aleppo, has been under siege for over a month. It has emerged as the key stronghold in the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces continue to intensify their aerial bombardment of the city.
With nearly 3 million people in the city, this is a bigger siege than Leningrad.
People in Syria are calling it "The Most Of All Battles."
Still, few news reports make it out of the city, and those that do mean little to Westerners who may know Damascus but have never heard of Aleppo.
Aleppo had a population of 2.985 million
Source: CIA World Factbook
Note: The Syrian government's population estimate is a bit more conservative: 2.132 million.
That's more people than there are in Chicago (2.7 million).
Aleppo had 97,767 business establishments in operation. That's over three times as many as there are in San Francisco.
Source: Aleppo City Development Strategy
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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