ALEPPO (SYRIA) - After years of war, the scent of laurel oil once again wafts from a small soap workshop in Aleppo, signalling the revival of a landmark trade in the battered northern city.

Aleppo soap – widely considered to be the first soap ever made – is popular across the Middle East and far beyond. But the intense fighting is making business in Syria’s second city all but impossible ...

On December 4, the Juhan Kuus Documentary Photo Center in Telliskivi Creative City opened an exhibition called "Home and Peace" with depictions of ruined buildings in Syria crafted out of Aleppo soap.

A fourth-generation soap maker in his native Syria, Mr. Sabouni towers up bars of green soap at his Aleppo Savon store in Calgary on Dec. 18, 2018. Guillaume Nolet/The Globe and Mail ...

The UN's cultural organisation added Aleppo's famous soap to its intangible cultural heritage list Tuesday with Syria's second city again wracked by war.