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  Umayyad mosque, a Unesco world heritage site, falls amid battles in Syria

  World | Apr 25, 2013, 02:49 PM IST

  Beirut, Apr 25: The 11th-century minaret of a famed mosque that towered over the narrow stone alleyways of Aleppo's old quarter collapsed on Wednesday as rebels and government troops fought pitched battles in the streets

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  Umayyad mosque burned in Syria's Aleppo

  World | Oct 19, 2012, 09:25 PM IST

  Beirut, Oct 19: Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday ordered immediate repairs to a historic mosque in the city of Aleppo after fierce fighting between rebels and regime forces set parts of the compound on