The ancient marketplace, or "souk", in Aleppo, Syria, is a labyrinth of cobbled streets and stalls that, until recently, showcased glistening gold work and glass. The violence of the civil war ...

Fighting for control of Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city, raged on Sunday after a fire in its historic covered market underscored how deepening civil war is tearing apart a country at the heart of ...

FeatureOnce on the civil war's front line, the medieval souk, the major Syrian city's former bustling heart, is now largely destroyed. While a few dozen shops have been restored with foreign funds ...

The bazaar, or souk, is believed to be one of the world’s oldest covered markets. People would come from far to buy textiles, clothes, perfumes, spices and hand-made oriental products.

Four historic souks in northern Syria's Aleppo, heavily damaged during some of the most intense fighting of the 13-year civil war, reopened this week following their restoration.

The Syrian army recaptured eastern Aleppo from opposition groups after a siege and heavy bombardment that forced tens of thousands of civilians and fighters to flee. “In 2012, we fled the souk ...

Four historic souks in northern Syria's Aleppo, heavily damaged during some of the most intense fighting of the 13-year civil war, reopened this week following their restoration."After I reopened my ...

Since antiquity, Aleppo has been famous for gold. But a post-war crime wave means jewelers no longer display gold in windows. The city is installing solar-powered streetlights to fight crime.

Aleppo: Four historic souks in northern Syria's Aleppo, heavily damaged during some of the most intense fighting of the 13-year civil war, reopened this week following their restoration.

A mantle of gold smothers Aleppo's ruins, hiding the rubble and filling the craters with wild flowers that for a moment seem to transform a landscape scarred by war, destruction and death.