After The Battle, Despair Grips Damascus
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) – In the once bustling shopping district of Hamra Street in the heart of Damascus, three men – all made homeless by fighting which raged in the city for two weeks – sit outside their empty shops on a deserted pavement. Residents of the eastern and southern suburbs of the Syrian capital, which have been hardest hit by President Bashar al-Assad's fierce counter-offensive against rebel forces, they have sought shelter with family in central Damascus. "Can you believe that all three of us here have fled our homes? All of us are from destroyed homes. …
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