Aleppo

Award-winning filmmaker Sara Fattahi’s 2018 film Chaos has received rave reviews and Aleppo native Avo Kaprealian’s claustrophobic, experimental film Houses Without Doors has shown the world a side of Syrian creativity it didn’t know existed.

The U.N. special representative has called for local ceasefires in Aleppo and elsewhere to start building a broader peace.

The economy in Aleppo barely exists, and the attitude of those who remain hovers somewhere between defiance and defeat.

The fall of Aleppo will be hugely tragic—“psychologically and optically devastating,” says Itani.

Western-backed FSA brigades in northern Syria are now holed up in three pockets: in Aleppo, and to the west and north of the city.

That was right after an initial wave of U.S. Navy Tomahawk cruise missiles hit their targets around Aleppo and Raqqah.

If we may not take her to Aleppo, let us swing her across a saddle and spur away to Hamath, where there is a good market!

I ate salt with the chief of the watch on the Aleppo road—a generous man who will take a hint swiftly!

Aleppo is one of the largest cities in Syria, and a most important commercial center.

Hence the city, which later grew up at this spot, was called Haleb-es-Shahba, or Aleppo.

I reminded them of the pledge to reach Aleppo on the third day, and so kept on until dusk.