A picture shows destroyed buildings in Aleppo's northwest Layramoun industrial district on July 5, 2017. Six months after Syria's army captured the country's one-time economic powerhouse, dozens of manufacturers with small and medium-sized factories are cautiously returning to the city's east, once a stronghold of opposition fighters. Syria's conflict has ravaged the country's economy since it began in March 2011 with anti-government protests, before spiralling into a complex war that has killed over 320,000 people. / AFP PHOTO / JOSEPH EID