Archive for October, 2016
What’s it like playing chess with Obama? – asks a top official of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin replies – “It’s like playing chess with a pigeon. First it knocks over all the pieces, then it shits on the board, and finally it struts around like it won.” That was, of course, a popular joke in […]
... written on Oct 05 2016As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Aleppo was Syria’s largest city with a population of 2.5 million people. That was in early 2011 before the conflict starts. The Syrian Civil War started in March 2011. But it wasn’t until 19 July, 2012 that the Battle of Aleppo officially began. And since then hundreds of thousands […]
... written on Oct 03 2016
