ALEPPO: After years of war, the scent of laurel oil once again wafts from a small soap workshop in Aleppo, signaling the revival of a landmark trade in the battered northern city. Surrounding soap ...

The UN's cultural organisation added Aleppo's famous soap to its intangible cultural heritage list Tuesday with Syria's second city again wracked by war. Artisans have brewed olive and laurel oil in ...

During the four years of fighting before Assad's forces recaptured Aleppo following a devastating siege, the city was virtually emptied — Ozan KOSE The historic Baron Hotel in Syria's Aleppo is ...

SANTENY, France (Reuters) - A Syrian soapmaker who fled Aleppo after the factory he worked in was bombed has set up shop in a Paris suburb, reviving a tradition he says dates back millennia. Hassan ...