DAMASCUS: Hundreds of thousands of Aleppo residents are 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 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.

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