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\u00a9 Jan Oberg 2017. All rights reserved to these images. Under no circumstances must any of them be reprinted or reposted online without my written consent.<\/p><\/div>\n

Background to Sheikh Najjar Industrial City outside Aleppo<\/em><\/p>\n

5 Feb 2017 – <\/em>We are in the huge industrial city a little outside Aleppo – Sheikh Najjar<\/em><\/a>. It was one of the largest industrial centres in the Middle East, the largest in Syria with around 2000 enterprises of great diversity and providing the livelihood of 30.000-40.000 workers. It’s estimated that it represented about half of Syria’s industrial capacity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With over 2 million citizens, Aleppo used to be the largest city in Syria and a magic meeting point of many cultures, people and activities situated as it were at the famous Silk Road.<\/p>\n

Read about Aleppo here and see<\/a> its amazing beauty, its magnificent architecture and diversity. Aleppo was a UNESCO World Heritage site. It belonged of course first of all to the Aleppians but also to the Syrian people, to the Middle East and to the rest of humanity.<\/p>\n

From when Eastern Aleppo was swiftly occupied and looted in 2012 by the defector, anti-government Syrian Free Army, FSA<\/a>, and terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Nushra until its liberation on December 12, 2016 it’s been virtually totally destroyed. See my photo series about the destruction<\/a> outside its Old City.<\/p>\n