Aleppo

Pertaining to the former, Timur invaded Syria in the year 1399, resulting in the devastating sacking of two major Mamluk-controlled cities – Aleppo and Damascus.

He was the commander of the Revolutionary Military Council and a general in the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo while Russia, Assad and Iran carpet-bombed the city and starved its people.

They have refrained from the intense bombing and missile strikes against civilian areas that destroyed and depopulated cities such as Aleppo in 2016 and Grozny in 1999, perhaps because they believed the local population would welcome them.

Tomato jam is one of Edy’s best-selling products, and I replicate it here by blending store-bought tomato sauce with olive oil infused with Aleppo peppers and garlic.

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.