Since 2012, the city of Aleppo has been divided in two: to the west, an area controlled by the Syrian regime, and to the east, an area held by rebel factions. Embedded with the rebels, Alaa Aljaber, a local, covered the fighting for several international media outlets. But when it was announced that the Castello Road (so-named in honour of a local Italian restaurant) had been seized, he decided to flee, whatever the risk: