ALEPPO, Syria — Before the war, Aleppo’s ancient walled citadel drew in armies of visitors to one of the Middle East’s greatest treasures. But for the past four years the Citadel&… ...

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 ...

- 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 ...

11 A courtyard in Aleppo photographed in 1981. Through the 1980s, with repression on the rise, an increasingly militant group, Muslim Brotherhood, ...

Last Thursday, as forces loyal to the Syrian government advanced through eastern Aleppo and despondent civilians there wondered whether they would be massacred, Syria’s President, Bashar al ...

Reporting from Beirut — It was a Saturday evening on June 16, 1979, when a duty officer in the Aleppo Artillery School, Capt. Ibrahim Yousef, called some 300 cadets for an urgent meeting in the ...

"What is happening in Aleppo is terrible, and one should not worry excessively about whether to classify the atrocities as genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity," Naimark said in an email.

The shells landed at the entrance and in the courtyard of the hospital in Atareb, a town in rural western Aleppo, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Aleppo is one of Syria's largest cities and one of its most divided. For years, control of the city has been split between President Bashar Assad's forces and the rebels fighting his authoritarian ...

Syrian armed opposition forces have entered Aleppo just three days into their surprise offensive, marking the first time they have set foot in the country’s second largest city since government ...

The Aleppo I arrived in, on the night before Christmas Eve, was shrouded in a sleep that felt centuries old. I remember men in black-tasseled fezzes—the red flat-topped hats of the Ottomans that ...