Syrians visit a Christmas market in Damascus two weeks after Islamist-led rebels ousted longtime leader Bashar al-Assad. Assad fled Syria earlier this month as rebel forces led by the Sunni Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) entered the capital after a lightning offensive.
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00:00The atmosphere this year is very nice, and we are waiting for the Christmas market every
00:23year to go down and have a lot of fun, and this year in particular, it was more beautiful
00:28because Syria was liberated, and finally we got rid of everything.
00:31The atmosphere this year is nice, but you don't see a lot of people going out, and decoration.
00:38Maybe because the electricity situation is still bad, or maybe people are a little scared.
00:44But I hope that by the beginning of the year, the situation will improve.
00:47Islam goes down before Christianity, and we are used to being together in the holidays,
00:57and after the revolution, it didn't change at all.
00:59On the contrary, now you find that people are happier and more relaxed.
01:26The atmosphere this year is very nice, and we are waiting for the Christmas market every
01:34year to go down and have a lot of fun, and finally we got rid of everything.
01:40The atmosphere this year is nice, but you don't see a lot of people going out, and