Syrian rebels have taken parts of Aleppo. What does that mean for the war? NPR's Eric Deggans speaks with Dareen Khalifa of the International Crisis Group about Syrian rebels taking control of ...

Aleppo's Umayyad mosque, photographed before the war, on March 12, 2009. The mosque has since been badly damaged, which Alan also captures in his photo essay. (Omar Sanadiki/Reuters) ...

Seven months after the fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr gained access to sites ...

Looking at photos of Aleppo, Syria, before and after the Battle for Aleppo is a sobering reminder of the catastrophic consequences of the conflict as the Syrian civil war continues.

Aleppo was once the center of Syria's merchant class, ... now is full of people taking selfies before a large #Believe_In_Aleppo sign. ... And although all is calm in Aleppo, the war isn’t far away.

Now Syria's war has reignited Rebels have rekindled Syria's war with a lightning offensive that seemed to come from nowhere. But multiple upheavals, beginning with the Gaza war last year, have ...

Aleppo has been a major rebel base since 2012, when the Syrian civil war really took off in earnest. In late September 2015, Assad’s forces began a concerted effort to retake the city.

Syria is now in its fifth year of civil war, with the Syrian Center for Policy Research estimating the death toll at a staggering 470,000. Aleppo may be one of the hardest-hit cities.

Photographed in the back of an ambulance in a state of shock, Omran Daqneesh became the face of Aleppo’s chidren in the Syrian war. A year on, his father is angry about it.

And if they managed to do that in Aleppo, I think it's going to give them more - a better ability, a better chance to govern different parts of Syria as well. DEGGANS: Well, thank you so much for ...

And if they managed to do that in Aleppo, I think it's going to give them more - a better ability, a better chance to govern different parts of Syria as well. DEGGANS: Well, thank you so much for ...