Residents return to recaptured Old City of east Aleppo. Except the city they knew is gone

The ablution fountains, where worshipers would wash before prayers, had long run dry and still stood in the center of the Ummayad Mosque of Aleppo, the fountains’ domed tops leaking shafts of light from the pinpricks caused by bullet holes. 

Around the fountains lay small chunks of masonry and...