Dec 21, 2016 · Aleppo, Syria's second city, was once the country's commercial and industrial hub, as well as a major regional tourist destination. But four years of war have left large parts of the Old City -...

May 24, 2017 · Aleppo may have helped the regime’s morale, but the war is likely to grind on for years, sustained and manipulated by outside powers.

Jul 4, 2016 · 20 photos of the same places, before and after the Syrian war of the city of Aleppo. One of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. In 19 July 2012 an ongoing military confrontation began in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, as a part of the Syrian Civil War.

Dec 14, 2016 · Syrian pro-government forces walk in the ancient Umayyad mosque in the old city of Aleppo on December 13, 2016, after they captured the area.

Jun 1, 2017 · Reporter Robert Worth returned to Aleppo after years of urban warfare destroyed the once beautiful Syrian city. He tells Steve Inskeep about the people who managed to stay alive during years of...

After years of relative calm, the Syrian civil war has burst into the open with the fall of Aleppo to anti-Assad forces. What lies ahead?

Dec 2, 2024 · Aleppo was never meant to fall. A stunning offensive waged by two Turkish-backed forces over the space of the last five days has resulted in the conquering of Syria’s second-largest city and industrial hub, doing in under a week what more numerous and well-resourced anti-Assad rebels never managed.

Apr 4, 2025 · ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Scores of U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters left two neighborhoods in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo Friday as part of a deal with the central government in Damascus, which is expanding its authority in the country.. The fighters left the predominantly Kurdish northern neighborhoods of Sheikh Maksoud and Achrafieh, which had been under the control of Kurdish fighters in ...

Dec 18, 2024 · In 2016, however, regime forces managed to fully regain control of Aleppo after bloody battles and bombings that caused widespread destruction to the city’s cultural heritage. Extensive damage affected large parts of the city’s markets, historical buildings, and museums, with Aleppo’s iconic citadel also sustaining harm.

Dec 4, 2024 · On November 27, the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) alliance led a major offensive snatching Syria’s second city Aleppo and dozens of towns and villages from government control, after years of regime gains in successive Russian-backed military campaigns.