A picture taken from a rebel-held area shows smoke billowing from buidings in the pro-regime Shiite town of Fuaa, in northwestern Idlib province, on December 6, 2016 following a reported rebel shelling. Syria's government said it would not agree to a ceasefire in Aleppo unless it guarantees a full withdrawal of rebel factions from the city. / AFP / Omar haj kadour (Photo credit should read OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/Getty Images)
A picture taken on July 28, 2016 shows smoke billowing in Bani Zeid after Syrian pro-government forces took control of the previously rebel-held district of Leramun, on the northwest outskirts of Aleppo. Pro-Assad forces took control of Bani Zeid after heavy fighting overnight backed by Syrian and Russian airstrikes, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, two days after they seized the nearby neighbourhood of Leramun. / AFP / GEORGE OURFALIAN (Photo credit should read GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images)
