Before & After Pics Of Aleppo Reveal What War Did To Syria’s Largest City

#1 Syria is a genocidal mess

As the government bombs its own citizens due to cultural and ethnic differences, the white helmet group does all they can to save victims and minimize the death toll, but the city is a ruin of what it once was.

#2 Though a ceasefire agreement was recently reached allowing citizens to retreat to the rebel held Idlib province, most homes are ruined

The government forces have captured most previously rebel-held areas and are now evacuating civilians from those areas. The city of Aleppo, Syria's capital, was once a tourist destination but now it is the site of thousands of deaths at the hands of their own government led by Bashar Al-Assad.

#3 Historical sites have not been spared

Among the damaged sites of value is the Great Mosque built in the 8th century.

#4 The citadel of Aleppo is also beyond recognition

It is one of the oldest and largest castles in the world, but relentless bombing has done damage that renders it in shambles.

#5 It really is amazing that Syria's own power brokers could do this to a once glorious country

This infrastructure will likely take decades to rebuild, and it is all in the name of a dictator maintaining power that a huge amount of the population rightfully wants him to give up.

#6 It's a scene that border on apocaplyptic

This beautiful castle is now little more than a scene reminding the world what modern weapons and an unstable leader combine to create.

#7 The destruction is mind blowing

Such beautiful architecture created over a span of more than 1,000 years, reduced to rubble in a matter of seconds.

#8 Before/After

This is not a before/after of weight loss or a beautiful surgery, it is a before/after in the worst sense.

#9 Help bring Assad down, and Syria back

A leader who is willing to do this to his nation's own capital, taking thousands of lives in the process, is not one fit to lead a cultural and infrastructural comeback.

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