A Syrian pro-government fighter looks on from his sniper nest in a building in Aleppo's western Minyan district on November 10, 2016. The Observatory said that regime forces earlier in the week had retook the Minyan district in the west from rebels. Aleppo has been divided between government control in the west and rebel control in the east since mid-2012, but in recent months regime troops have surrounded the east, laying siege to it. (Photo by George Ourfalian/AFP Photo)
