Syria before and after

Images of Aleppo as it looked prior to 2011, and, in some cases, how those same sites appear today, after nearly six years of war.

Utterly heartbreaking.

The Syrian military and journalists are finding that some ruins have been relatively unscathed -- but some are almost completely destroyed.

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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.

Before and after Theresa

Syria's electricity infrastructure has been destroyed by six years of war. Images from NASA show precisely how the lights have gone out during the course of the war, leaving people to survive with little to no power.

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.