Damascus Brings in Festive Season With Massive Christmas Parade

Reuters
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A parade was held in Damascus on Dec. 22 to celebrate Christmas with a band comprising more than 100 Syrian scout troops.

The parade kicked-off in Bab Touma and ended in Abbasiyeen square passing through Qassa, in Eastern Ghouta, areas that were targets of incessant shelling and mortar attacks by rebel groups for years.