Here's a view of the minaret of the Great Mosque in old Aleppo on January 29, 2013. Once one of the oldest mosques in Aleppo, built in 1090, the building was destroyed by fighting between the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian Army in April of 2013.
A view shows damaged shops in Al Khandaq street in Old Aleppo October 2, 2012. Aleppo's Old City is one of several locations in Syria declared world heritage sites by UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency, that have come under siege during the civil war.
A torn-apart ceiling is pictured in Bab Antakya district in Old Aleppo in October of 2012.
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Tourists stand on the Qassyoun mountain overlooking the city of Damascus in 2005.
Before the unrest began, Syrians smoke water pipes outside a cafe in the old city of Damascus May 12, 2009.
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A group of foreign women living in Syria have breakfast after taking their bath at a public bath in old Damascus in February of 2009. Before the war started, the baths were being restored as a way to attract tourists and encourage tourism in the country.
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An Iranian tourist prays at Umayyad mosque in the city of Damascus September 1, 2006.
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A symbolic trade caravan passes during a show held in the ancient city of Palmyra, some 240km northeast of Damascus September 27, 2002. The show was organized by the Syrian Tourism Ministry on the occasion of the World Tourism Day. The two-day festival was called “On the footsteps of the silk road.”
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