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Aleppo, Syria, is probably the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. With the first settlers dating to 6 millennia B.C., it has amassed incomprehensible amounts of history behind its walls. Aleppo used to be the biggest city in Syria, but since 2012 July the 19th, when horrors of the Syrian War ensued, now Damascus, Syria's capital, is the largest.

The Syrian Civil War, still happening today, has demanded the deaths of thousands of civilians. With the center of it all being Aleppo, the many barrel bombs dropped from helicopters have destroyed what used to be the oldest city in the world. The hammams, souqs, basilicas, and the ancient Old Town had turned to rubble because of this dispute. Not to mention the many peoples' lives it has destroyed.

Now, we understand that these war pictures of the great city before and after the war are not our usual cheery topic to write about, but sometimes it's good to have a reality check.

Scroll down below to see the destruction of the UNESCO World Heritage site in our picture list of Syria before and after the war.

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Ole Peder Amrud Hagen
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A few years back I sat there and had an amazing meal in one of the friendliest cities I've ever visited. Now... an unbelievable tragedy.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These photos make you think about how war can destroy things in an instant that took months or years to construct. And when it's a person who's destroyed, there's no way to "rebuild."

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandparents born in there.. It breaks my heart see how destroyed this city is ????????

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Peter Atkin
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Such a beautiful country, what a waist. My heart felt sympathy to you all past and present.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My brain actually cannot accept this information. The destruction is quite inconceivable.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What we see in pictures is only collateral damages, what can't be seen is a lot more; human sufferings, innocent people killed including women and children. Hospitals, schools and other educational institutions, place of worship ect. Displaced persons facing other brutalities of all sorts. Why all these sufferings to a country which was considered a peaceful place to live and no record of human rights violations. Then why all this continues to go on and on, what the united nation and the civilized world is doing, what is the hidden agenda behind the brutal human sufferings?

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The sky is no longer blue and beautiful :( it's as if the pictures are the wrong way round. I hate humans

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Donald this was an absolute crime against humanity. I can only assume you are uneducated.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in Korea, and that Kia car made me realize how recent the "before" pictures were.. you STILL see those cars rolling around in Korea in shiny condition. It's difficult to believe that such a prosperous country is in such ruins now, until you see the one thing that pours the reality into you. I thought the before pictures were from the 1990s.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am American and I have wanted to go to Syria for my whole life because if the amazing and incredible history there. I went to Ireland and stood in ruins where humans were traced back to have lived there in the year 3,000 BC 3000 years before “Christ”. It was your country that gave safe havens for “terrorists” I use that word in quotations because we can spend decades defining and debating what that means but to me what it means is the first safe haven for dangerous people to go out beyond their walls to other countries and kill innocent civilians. Yeah sure it it unsafe for the innocent people that live there but think first to blame your own government for protecting these dangerous people then the countries who are victims of these attacks who have said no more against the irresponsible and incomprehensible dangerous done. If you really think the Americans or the cia or the Jews are mindless psychopaths and killsheet orders how did the names get there in the first place?

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really depressing looking through these. What was a very prosperous country now looks like a building site. I am so terribly sorry to be from 1 of the countries that caused this. We should have left well alone instead of all the time thinking we know better.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the Maze Runner Scorch Trials in the movie. BTDubbs, the movie was terrible, book much better.

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