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 ...

BEIRUT — Fire swept through the old central souk, or marketplace, of Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, damaging a vast and well-preserved labyrinth of medieval storehouses, shops, schools and ornate ...

Coverage of the war in Syria is rightly focused on the human cost, but there are cultural casualties too, says Kevin Rushby, who remembers Aleppo's Souk al-Madina, a Unesco world heritage site, which ...

ALEPPO, Syria — Before the war, ... Large sections of Aleppo’s Islamic-era covered market or souk, one of the most extensive in the world, were destroyed in clashes in 2012 and 2013, ...

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.

Syria's ancient Aleppo souk poised to regain its bustle. Aleppo (Syria) (AFP) – Issued on: 10/03/2019 - 04:28. Advertising. Read more On the domed roof of a historical market in the northern ...

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 ...

Once-proud shop owners in Aleppo's picturesque old city market, the merchants of Syria's former economic capital now live on a pittance selling goods on pavements and stalls. After a major rebel ...

By Maher Al MounesAgence France-PresseALEPPO, Syria — The historic Khan Al Harir souk in war-torn Syria's erstwhile economic capital of Aleppo has reopened following restoration work, but much of the ...

The Saqatiya souk covers an area of more than 1,500sq.m and used to house more than 50 shops before Syria's conflict landed in Aleppo in 2012. It is located near other landmarks of Aleppo's Old City, ...