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15:24, 22-Jun-2019
Witnessing Syria's heartbreak and hope in ruined Aleppo
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Aleppo is to Syria what New York City is to the United States. It was Syria's modern-day financial center and the western end of the ancient Silk Road. But the eight-year-long Syrian civil war turned the city into ruins. Now the worst of the bloodshed is over, but locals in what was once Aleppo's downtown central business district are struggling with the harder battle of getting back what they lost.