ALEPPO, Syria – The Great Mosque of Aleppo, a centuries-old treasure at the heart of one of the world's oldest cities, is today a grim monument to the ravages of Syria's war. The doors have been ...

The 11th-century minaret of the Great Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo, one of the world's oldest and most important, has been destroyed by shellfire as the Syrian war consumes the country's vast ...

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) - The Great Mosque of Aleppo, a centuries-old treasure at the heart of one of the world's oldest cities, is today a grim monument to the ravages of Syria's war. The doors have ...

The Umayyad Mosque is inside Aleppo’s walled Old City, and is a Unesco World Heritage site. It is the second instance where a historic Sunni mosque was heavily damaged recently.

Both sides in Syria’s civil war were in rare agreement Wednesday: The minaret at a 12th-century mosque in Aleppo has been obliterated.

The Great Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo, which dates back to 710 AD, stood as a battlefield in the recent Syrian war, losing its 11th-century old Seljuk Minaret.

The mosque, built during the 8th century, underwent comprehensive restoration and repairs starting in 1999 and concluding in 2006. Gh.A.Hassoun / Hazem Sabbagh ِaleppo mosque restoration Umayyad ...

ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - The remains of the medieval Umayyad Mosque's felled minaret lie in its once-elegant courtyard along with discarded mattresses, fragments of rockets and antique doors, but ...

ALEPPO, Syria — The Great Mosque of Aleppo, a centuries-old treasure at the heart of one of the world's oldest cities, is today a grim testament to the ravages of ...

Aleppo, SANA_ With great attention given to details and deliberate and studied steps, the restoration works of Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo is underway to include every stone has been damaged by ...

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — The Great Mosque of Aleppo, a centuries-old treasure at the heart of one of the world's oldest cities, is today a grim testament to the ravages of Syria's war. The doors ...