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Photos: Exhaustion in Aleppo after months of air bombardments

Members of Aleppo's civil defense team try to rescue a woman trapped under rubble after her home was sheared in half by a government barrel bomb attack.

Members of Aleppo’s civil defense team try to rescue a woman trapped under rubble after her home was sheared in half by a government barrel bomb attack.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

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Much of the anger in Aleppo, once Syria’s commercial hub and now divided between government forces and rebels, has dissipated these days, overtaken by exhaustion after months spent under intense air bombardments from emboldened government forces attempting to retake the city.

Life in Aleppo

A civil defense team member, Khalid Hijjo, surveys the aftermath of a deadly barrel bomb attack in Aleppo, Syria.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Life in Aleppo

Children line up for a meal being distributed in the Old City of Aleppo, where many families are struggling to feed themselves.

  (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Life in Aleppo

Muhammad, 4, goes with his 9-year-old sister each day to fill up jugs with water from the mosque, the only site in the neighborhood with running water.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Life in Aleppo

Ibrahim sprays his children, Zahra and Muhammad, with water on a hot day as he fills up containers for his extended family of 16.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Life in Aleppo

Mahmood makes several trips to a mosque each day to collect water for his family, whose neighborhood has been without running water for nearly two months.

  (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

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