Daesh under siege in Al-Bab as members of Astana talks fail to reach ceasefire agreement

Syrians walk past destroyed buildings in Al-Bab in the northern province of Aleppo on 1 September 2012. Daesh militants are now encircled in the city of al-Bab after Syrian regime forces advanced Monday in the north of Syria towards the south of the city while the Turkish army and Free Syrian Army factions tightened the lose on the militant organization from the city’s three other sides.