Aleppo

Aleppo (/əˈlɛp/; Arabic: ﺣﻠﺐ / ALA-LC: Ḥalab, IPA: [ˈħalab]) is the largest city in Syria and it serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,132,100 (2004 census), it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant. For centuries, Aleppo was the Syrian region's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third-largest, after Constantinople and Cairo.

Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it has been inhabited since perhaps as early as the 6th millennium BC. Excavations at Tell as-Sawda and Tell al-Ansari, just south of the old city of Aleppo, show that the area was occupied since at least the latter part of the 3rd millennium BC; and this is also when Aleppo is first mentioned in cuneiform tablets unearthed in Ebla and Mesopotamia, in which it is noted for its commercial and military proficiency. Such a long history is probably due to its being a strategic trading point midway between the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia (i.e. modern Iraq).

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First passenger plane lands at Aleppo International Airport

Enab Baladi 18 Mar 2025
The official Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported that Aleppo International Airport witnessed the landing of the first passenger plane since the fall of the Assad regime, arriving from Damascus International Airport, following three months of work on the maintenance and renovation of the airport....
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Turkey strikes strategic sites in northern Syria

Virtual Jerusalem 16 Mar 2025
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Turkish fighter jets carried out intensive airstrikes yesterday evening, targeting strategic positions in the Aleppo countryside in northern Syria.� | Read More�News from Israel .......
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Airport to reopen in Syria's second city Aleppo

Gulf-Times 15 Mar 2025
The airport in Syria's second city Aleppo is set to reopen next week, the state news agency reported Saturday, after it was shut during the offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad.'The Syrian Civil Aviation Authority announced the resumption of operations at Aleppo International ......
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Are Christians being massacred in Syria?

The Observers 14 Mar 2025
While the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch stated that “many Christians” have been massacred, a number of Syrian Christian churches have warned about fake news reports circulating on social media ... George Sabe, a Marist brother in Aleppo, told Vatican News that there has been a “real ethnic massacre of many Christians along the coast"....

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