Insane Scenes Like This Happen Every Day In Syria's Largest City [PHOTOS]

For the last 15 months the Salaheddine neighborhood in southwestern Aleppo has been at the heart of the brutal stalemate gripping Syria's most populous city.

"We take a building and then lose it two or three days later, only to take it back the following week," Abu Ahmad, whose platoon operates in the Salaheddin, told AFP last week.

Salaheddine is right next to the highway that connects Damascus and Aleppo. Rebels cut the highway off in December, and the Syrian army just reopened the alternate route used to supply troops.

This photo captures the sheer chaos of the front lines:

Another view:

When combatants aren't fighting in the street, they're fighting house-to-house.

This ones shows how the apartments in Syria's commercial hub have become positions through which fighters shoot at enemies next door.