The Citadel of Aleppo sits on a 50-meter limestone hill in the center of ...

Just 300 miles separate Mosul, Iraq, and Aleppo, Syria, two cities very much in the news in recent months. They are in the grips of separate government-led offensives to reclaim the cities from ...

A picture taken 17 March 2006 shows a general view of the historic Syrian city of Aleppo, 350 kms north of Damascus, with its landmark cytadel in the background. Hundreds of Arab and foreign ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Restoring full control over Aleppo, Syria's most populous city before the war, has been seen as critical to the fortunes of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a multi-sided civil ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of Syrian insurgents fanned out inside Aleppo in vehicles with improvised armor and pickups, deploying to landmarks such as the old citadel on Saturday, a day after they ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sozdar Abdo learnt a lot about Aleppo’s old city in the wake of the explosions that echoed around her. “Each ...

Early in the 7-year-old Syrian civil war, U.S. imports of Syria’s signature dried, ground Aleppo chiles dropped drastically. The spice-trading city of the same name, where the fresh pepper was ...

On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, starting World War 1, one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. World War 1 was a battled of the Allied Power – mainly composed of ...