ALEPPO, Syria: Men throw rubble into the courtyard of a historic inn here as merchants gather below to oversee the resurrection of their war-battered shops.

The shopkeepers have returned for the first time to clear the debris left behind by years of fighting after their century-old trading ground became a front line.

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