Hundreds of thousands of Aleppo residentsare stranded and prices for basic goods are soaring after a jihadist advance cut the sole route to regime-held areas of Syria's second city.
The "Islamic State" (ISIS) terrorist group last week severed a road south of the city that formed part of the only remaining way out for residents of the government-held west of Aleppo. With the route cut, the cost of everything from tomatoes to petrol has skyrocketed before the eyes of frustrated Aleppans.
"Within five days it has gotten to the point of madness," Salaheddin, 45, a real estate agent from the Saif al-Dawla neighbourhood, told AFP by telephone.