Local and international experts are filling a government void, and have begun the process of mapping and assessing sites ...

The scars that disfigure Syria after 14 years of civil war are wider than its minefields. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of ...

Hope for a better life' - Aleppo's medieval citadel, however, remains relatively intact. Rebel fighters, one with a rose slipped into the barrel of his gun, stood guard outside the ancient ...

The Aleppo Citadel, which contains the remains of mosques, a palace and bath buildings, is one of several sites in Syria on Unesco's world heritage list. One of the most famous is the ancient ...

SYRIAN troops advanced into Aleppo’s central old city yesterday in the final offensive against 5,000 Western-backed insurgents. They liberated the Farafira district on the north side of the medieval ...

residents of Aleppo make their way to the city’s ancient citadel to take selfies or snaps of each other. The nearby buildings, including the Great Omayyid Mosque, are heavily damaged or ...

As a man dances atop a camel, surrounded by a joyful crowd, right nearby, on the entrance of the medieval Aleppo Citadel, the new Syrian flag with three red stars and a green stripe is hung.

The citadel and its wide, rubbish-strewn moat lies beyond the historic quarter. Once Syria's economic capital, Aleppo and its surrounding neighbourhoods have been destroyed by four years of ...

The New York Times is tracking the human toll of the conflict in this feature. The primary source is the online video that has allowed a widening war to be documented like no other, and posts try ...

ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers with Syria’s new government were speeding through the streets of Aleppo in pursuit of a man who had been spotted ...

Some other vendors were selling flowers, sweets and corn to the evening crowd around the medieval citadel that dominates Aleppo's old city. The citadel, which attracted visitors from around the ...