Even its crown jewel, The Citadel of Aleppo, was badly damaged and left to rot. Buildings destroyed by air attacks are still visible from the foot of the Citadel today. Even in the city’s rif ...

The opposition rebels on Saturday made their way through large parts of the city, staking their claim in the very center of the city at the Aleppo Citadel and the Great Mosque of Aleppo ...

On Friday, December 20, I pushed through the packed crowd at the Citadel of Aleppo with Yousef Ahmad, a professor of accounting at Aleppo University. Ahmad was buoyant that the old regime had ...

As a man dances atop a camel, surrounded by a joyful crowd, right nearby, on the entrance of the medieval Aleppo Citadel, the new Syrian flag with three red stars and a green stripe is hung.

and outside the city's medieval citadel. They tore down posters of Assad, stepping on some and burning others. The push into Aleppo followed weeks of simmering low-level violence, including ...

Another clip shows rebels at the city’s citadel, which is also in central Aleppo. At least one man in the clip is armed, as he says: “We are the first to arrive and the first to conquer.” ...

Spread the loveIntroduction Aleppo, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, is a treasure trove of ...

In the heart of Aleppo, an AFP photographer saw rebel fighters outside the city's landmark citadel. The army confirmed that the rebels had entered "large parts" of the city of around two million ...

BBC Verify has geolocated the footage to a western suburb of Aleppo. AFP said one of its reporters had seen "anti-government fighters" in front of the city's landmark citadel on Friday.

In a statement, it said troops had been withdrawn from Aleppo temporarily "to prepare a counteroffensive". Footage verified by the BBC showed rebels had reached the city's ancient citadel.

Until the fall of the al-Assad regime, the word “dollar” was forbidden in public. Instead, people used anything green – my ...