Located at the crossroads of several trade routes from the 2nd millennium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans. The 13th-century ...

The Citadel in Syria’s Aleppo - one of the oldest castles in the world - will be reconstructed ... said that the castle’s reconstruction would cost about 100 mln Syrian liras ($200,000).

The city's sand castle, which stands at 55 feet or 16.68 meters, won the prize after a Guinness World Record jury judged the behemoth on Friday. The sand castle used 3,860 tons of sand and took ...

Aleppo's old city, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site, was ravaged by the conflict that erupted after a government crackdown on protests in 2011. Between 2012 and 2016, it became a ...