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Syria in 2010.
Krak des Chevaliers is a Crusader castle in Syria and one of the most important medieval castles in the world.
Looking back to happy times in Syria. Unfortunately, there have been some trouble-makers in a couple of cities who have been turning otherwise peaceful demonstrations into something violent and provoking retaliation from the police and army, much like in London yesterday. Extraordinary to hear political commentators in UK drawing parallels between what has been happening in Libya to what is going on in Syria. But then it is easy to sit around and have an opinion without knowing anything about what is actually going on.
Syria - Damascus - Souleimanieh
التكية السليمانية بدمشق .
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
Syria in 2010.
Walls of the Citadel of Salah Ed-Din.
As of 2016 the castle survived the Syrian Civil War without any significant damage.
Aleppo - Minaret.
The minaret of one of Syria's most famous mosques has been destroyed during clashes in the northern city of Aleppo.The state news agency Sana accused rebels of blowing up the 11th-Century minaret of the Umayyad Mosque.
However, activists say the minaret was hit by Syrian army tank fire.
The mosque, which is a Unesco world heritage site, has been in rebel hands since earlier this year but the area around it is still contested.
Last October Unesco appealed for the protection of the site, which it described as "one of the most beautiful mosques in the Muslim world".
Images posted on the internet showed the minaret reduced to a pile of rubble in the mosque's tiled courtyard.
The Great Mosque, at the heart of the Old City of Aleppo, was founded by the Umayyad dynasty in 715 on the site of a Byzantine church. The mosque had to be rebuilt after being damaged by a fire in 1159, and again following the Mongol invasion in 1260. The oldest surviving part was the 45m (148ft) minaret, which dated back to 1090. Unesco describes the world-heritage-listed mosque as one of the most beautiful in the Muslim world. The mosque was badly damaged by fire during heavy fighting in the Old City in October 2012.
Other parts of the mosque complex - which dates mostly from the 12th Century - have been badly damaged by gunfire and shell hits. A report by Sana said fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group had destroyed the once famous landmark. It quoted an official source saying that "terrorists... placed explosive materials in the minaret and the mosque's southern door and set them off".
However, Aleppo-based activist Mohammed al-Khatib, quoted by AP news agency, said a tank shell had "totally destroyed" the 45m (148ft) minaret. The mosque has suffered extensive damage during months of fighting, with antique furnishings and intricately sculpted colonnades affected.
Reports say some ancient artefacts have also been looted, including a box purported to contain a strand of the Prophet Muhammad's hair. However, rebels said they had salvaged ancient handwritten Koranic manuscripts and hidden them.
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Syria in 2010.
Krak des Chevaliers is a Crusader castle in Syria and one of the most important medieval castles in the world.