The ancient marketplace, or "souk", in Aleppo, Syria, is a labyrinth of cobbled streets and stalls that, until recently, showcased glistening gold work and glass. The violence of the civil war ...

ALEPPO, Syria — On the domed roof of a historical market in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, architect Bassel Al Daher moves between workers painstakingly working to erase the scars of war. Men ...

In Syria's Aleppo, men throw rubble into the courtyard of a historic inn as merchants gather below to oversee the resurrection of their war-battered shops. The shopkeepers have returned for the ...

ALEPPO, Syria — Before the war, ... Large sections of Aleppo’s Islamic-era covered market or souk, one of the most extensive in the world, were destroyed in clashes in 2012 and 2013, ...

In December 2018, reporters from Xinhua News Agency in Damascus visited the al-Saqatiyah souk, a centuries-old Aleppo market located in an area listed as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO.

Once-proud shop owners in Aleppo's picturesque old city market, the merchants of Syria's former economic capital now live on a pittance selling goods on pavements and stalls. After a major rebel ...

Four historic souks in northern Syria's Aleppo, heavily damaged during some of the most intense fighting of the 13-year civil war, reopened this week following their restoration.

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Fighting has ... Other parts — the spices market, the gold souk and the handicrafts bazaar are still deserted. Sales are slim, but "as a start it's good," he says ...

Reporting from Aleppo, Syria — Her face was ashen, her solemn manner suggesting a state of grief. “It is as though we lost a close relative,” Haymen Rifai, 60, explained gravely as she stood ...

AT DUBAI Shopping Festival’s Bazaars of the World an absolute must-visit is Syria’s Aleppo Souq. Created on the lines of the venerated Syrina souq Aleppo at Al Seef ...

ALEPPO, Syria — The familiar passageways have turned hostile, the comforting labyrinth now a maze of menace. But Abu Taher threaded his way Tuesday through the alleys of Aleppo’s ancient Souk ...