A man sells balloons in Al-Hamidiyah Souq, in the old city of Damascus. Despite the ongoing conflict in Syria, life in government-held parts of Damascus still carries on relatively peacefully. Damascus, the capital city of war-torn Syria, is mostly under control by the official Syrian government led by president Bashar al-Assad.

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