Many of Aleppo's historical sites, including its famed Al-Madina Souq market and the Umayyad mosque, were badly damaged during Syria's civil war. According to UNESCO, 60% of the old city of Aleppo ...

1 The Umayyad mosque in the Old City of Aleppo. The historic district, built in the 12th to 16th centuries, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.

Fighting has destroyed large parts of Aleppo, Syria's largest city with 3 million residents and its former business capital. Activists say more than 33,000 people have died in the conflict, which ...

Government troops had been holed up inside the 13th-century Umayyad mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in downtown Aleppo for several months before rebels fighting to topple Mr. Assad launched ...

Others, including the al-Shibani church school, evidence of Aleppo’s history of religious tolerance, and the 13th century Nahasin bathhouse were damaged. Aleppo’s Old City and citadel had been ...

The sorry state of Aleppo’s Old City, a labyrinthine World Heritage Site and a battlefield from 2012-16, is obvious from a glance across the skyline at its shell-beaten minarets.

Once a beautiful city steeped in history, Aleppo is now unrecognisable with its rubble-strewn streets and bombed-out buildings, as these images show. Syria was a popular tourist destination as ...

ABC Rural ABC Rural The historic Aleppo city ABC Rural / Kendall Jackson PostedTue 13 Jul 2010 at 5:59am, updatedTue 13 Jul 2010 at 6:50am Kendall Jackson at the Citadel in Aleppo, Syria (Hani ...

By David Sim Published 09 December 2016, 1:19 PM GMT The historic Old City of Aleppo, a world heritage site, now lies in ruins after four years of conflict.

Syria has seen more than 100,000 deaths since the start of the conflict, and the world watched in horror as the violence rages on. Amidst the brutality, priceless historic sites have been ...