A Syrian child sits next to chickens being raised for eggs and meat in the northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo on February 9, 2016. 
Shop shelves are bare and prices have doubled in Syria's Aleppo as the threat of a blockade looms after advancing regime forces cut off the second city's main supply route last week. 

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