text: The much ballyhooed battle for Mosul began a month and a half ago. The news coverage of that conflict versus the news coverage of Aleppo is enormously one-sided. Why is that, considering the differing casualty counts  over the comparable period? If, as this media outlet states, it's a "slaughter" in Aleppo, then it's mass carnage in Mosul. Yet there's very little coverage of this in the Western media. That's all the more telling because the US coalition is fighting the battle in Mosul, whereas they took no direct part in the fight for Aleppo.
  
  The reason why is that Western governments and their media turned the spotlight on Syrian/Russian forces fighting in Aleppo, rather than the apparently greater disaster they're inflicting on Mosul. Again, according to reports, 6000 combatants have been killed in just one month of fighting for Mosul. That is intense combat, and it far exceeds the casualties over any comparable period in the battle for Aleppo.