“Hard to imagine Aleppo was once the business center of Syria. Many hotels. Foreign travelers.”
Same could be said about Beirut and the Lebanese civil war, which lasted well over a decade. Lebanon, and Beirut specifically used to be known as “Paris of the Middle East”.
Anyway, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq are not in better shape - that’s war generally does.
And will do here if it comes to war,
Grozny beats them all in terms of total destruction. But Aleppo was reduced rather quickly. Many religious sites took out as well. And who will rebuild it? Oh wait! AMERICA!