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Aleppo has eight hospitals - four have been bombed in the last five days
"We're on our knees and begging" - motorists being driven off the road by insurance costs, committee hears
People in Islamic State controlled city forced to eat "soups made from grass"
Breakthrough against IS: Iraqi troops reach town of Amerli, ending 2-month siege