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Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb is a Syrian freelance journalist based in Aleppo. On Twitter: @MohAlkhatieb

A woman works at an agriculture field in Aleppo November 8, 2014. REUTERS/Hosam Katan (SYRIA - Tags: AGRICULTURE SOCIETY) - RTR4DDI0

Besieged Aleppo residents turn to farming

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb

A Kurdish refugee child from the Syrian town of Kobani walks in the rain in a camp in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, October 16, 2014. The United States is bombing targets in Kobani for humanitarian purposes to relieve defenders of the Syrian town and give them time to organize against Islamic State militants, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (TURKEY - Tags: MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS) - RTR4AFUO

Rain batters Syrian refugee camps as winter looms

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Rebel fighters take positions during clashes with forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad around Handarat area October 12, 2014. REUTERS/Hosam Katan (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR49VUO

Rebels in Aleppo stretched thin between regime, IS

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb

A boy fills up a motorbike with diesel along a street in the Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa September 30, 2014. Activists said that the price of the diesel and gasoline has increased since the beginning of the air raids believed to have been carried out by U.S.-led forces against Islamic State (IS) militants. Air strikes believed to have been carried out by U.S.-led forces hit three makeshift oil refineries in Syria's Raqqa province early on Sunday as part of an assault to weaken Islamic State (IS) mil

Syrian price spikes: Aleppo gas increases by 140%

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Syrian rebels unhappy with coalition airstrikes

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Syrian Kurds wait behind the border fence to cross into Turkey near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, September 19, 2014. Several thousand Syrian Kurds began crossing into Turkey on Friday fleeing Islamic State fighters who advanced into their villages, prompting warnings of massacres from Kurdish leaders. Islamic State (IS) fighters have seized villages in northern Syria over the past two days and are besieging the mainly Kurdish town of Ayn al-Arab, known as Kobani in Kurdish, on the T

Islamic State attacks test Kurdish-Syrian rebel alliance

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Free Syrian Army fighters hold their weapons as they walk in the Aleppo countryside May 26, 2014. Picture taken May 26, 2014. REUTERS/Nour Fourat (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR3R1HJ

Syrian rebels deny truce deal with Islamic State

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb

IS attacks force thousands to flee from Aleppo

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb

As IS advances, Syrian rebels reinforce northern strategic town

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb

A student wears a headlight, due to electricity shortage, as he takes his year-end examinations at a school in Aleppo's al-Sha'ar district June 5, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman (SYRIA - Tags: CONFLICT EDUCATION SOCIETY) - RTX10CK8

Power outages add to Aleppo’s suffering

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Aleppo’s rebels struggle to hold on as regime, IS advance

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Members of Islamist rebel group al-Nusra Front prepare a home made mortar in Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood June 5, 2014. REUTERS/Hamid Khatib (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR3SE8K

Jabhat al-Nusra, IS compete for foreign fighters

Mohammed al-Khatieb

Mohammed al-Khatieb