For much of the past four years, taking a bus between the two sides of Syria's divided second city Aleppo meant an arduous, and sometimes dangerous, 10-hour road trip. At least 10 buses made the trip from west to east, after the army seized 60 percent of the former rebel stronghold in east Aleppo. "I haven't been to my house for almost six years," said Hala Hassan Fares, on one bus with her husband and son.
