Hookas are displayed near the damaged Sultaniyeh Mosque in the old city of Aleppo, Syria April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - The pencil minaret of the Ottoman Adliyeh mosque in Syria's Aleppo lists to one side and is scored by an ugly gash running down its flank, the result of bombing in the war.
The sorry state of Aleppo's Old City, a labyrinthine World Heritage Site and a battlefield from 2012-16, is obvious from a glance across the skyline at its shell-beaten minarets.
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