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to bomb ravaged remains of job a suburb just a few kilometers from the central damascus a few thousand police could residents have managed to find to guess at the regime every five years or so. in the second to two exclusive reports we've been behind the scenes sleep on the front line under constant pressure.

damascus two thousand and seventeen. a lot being this one shot that summer and the cost of syria's capital. the siege by the forces of president bashar assad for over five years. was along the same for. most of the districts residents have long since fled the few thousand who remain amid the ruins have stayed to protect their homes and the weapons. mainly luck on time and on. call we had on our watch you. couldn't have done. the ones on the side.

of the hallway. at all of the. loading. he. said. of a. loser who killed we back before the revolution a man run a pastry shop in job. and he's always been famous for his singing too. but like others here he's chosen to defend his neighborhood against the might of the regime. and throw that in with

a little more from of course you know. what on and while i was playing for sync with you and our family and kilometers. michelle who. lie in a show for men on it the loss of ali and. it's the. fear of why they're so obvious in the illusion is that they'll have a was that are. a lot of alaska vehicles was the. more thought the saudi facility. thought. and how that. for a saudi is a lie don't pull the. bible half says chairman of the council of free job a. leader of

a proud community that refuses to give in. but not that he be as he me will be assaulted you know what the law says he is a moment. of the. he that if you feel the loss how has he to as you know that it's all of the muck that hey look about. but five long years of war have taken their toll on those who remain. one of them is a member of a widow who lives on her own. she's had to get used to the constant attacks a little get up the item but i don't suppose he doesn't want to so many from what you have not begun to find enough. and we don't go out far i mean not to pat me down could not as you let into mine is

a little below the can my develop that of what if michael i don't know not how do you not have a had almost any moment not. climate ahead and not tell me you know what i had to do what i know but i don't love to have it you will not like . that defiance has been carved deep into the soil. amid the tunnels dug between the positions guarding the districts perimeter. job as fighters have learned to operate in small highly mobile squads. moving rapidly from one place to another to counter whatever threats appear. by necessity much of their lives are spent on the ground.

there with the most in need with us if it has a lot of diversity gyal. they have. said dipshit. mother look at. the. i don't know if you know. how the. when the history of jawbone is war is written these tunnels will be central to the story. they stretch for kilometers in every direction and new ones are being dug all the time. for all of the law. that's. called death and. when they logged out of others he was maybe that in the middle of

offical one. or. another job our local is a security official. he takes us right to the edge of the front line. assad's troops are in the building just a few meters away. everyone has to do a spell on the front line which is manned day and night tonight it's time . he's twenty six and was a jewelry seller and jawbone when the war broke out as his squad takes over from the outgoing unit there's just time for a snack. and on and on there's camaraderie among these young men some have known each of us families for years even if it works out but are they. good none of.

the face not untypical. on if they will let it all out in just a bit of. muscle but. that's ok you have a good show that's. you know. it's early in the morning on the squad to your boss fight on something called the front line. another offensive discriminants.

along the way there's an ever present threat of enemy snipers and no one lingers on open ground. no. one.

assad's forces have launched many offenses against the job or rebels over the last five years but there are attacks on the ground it's an. interest rate the regime has often resorted to heavy artillery and air strikes and its efforts to crush the friends. largely in discriminant these have devastated job was infrastructure and caused untold suffering.

the heart of. a woman who had been. done now because me. and i had too much of. and had. him give us. a mind that when the. away from the front line. runs a small grocery store and job he has a. wife and three children but felt he had to join the fighting solomon what a ton of us not all coming on and there's almost.

a news all mother michelle that i remember. any case. any of them around the most he said. that's true it is everywhere to be seen even in job on cemetery. motherhood motherhood. helaman you can. blame female. harry. really ability to. remember the girl who had her mom had a guy. when i was finally the head of. the america but when i do. i don't give a. bit of money already. but.

yeah you could be it but the lab it lay either been under when it went to do their bit to other out of the flow. because. i saw. this job on his grave. he's lost more than twenty members of his family to the revolution including his own son. damn any idea what he just sort of mother's day i was sure i could do a. days we even hope to live in the north. so you have to. i must. just saddam or how many states how he'd managed to.

assail the new vom. more with that at a. mall the other as a kind of hell or any kind of had. that it would be. to any man in a moment to him in the day the individual for that matter can see any. other. god not guilty of dusts other. linea who do that is in the. mind of the pub in the old women and with a you are in the. bottom then and hannah was once a wealthy real estate broker. he says this is only the remains of shoebox famous

eighth century an obvious synagogue which the regime destroyed back in two thousand and fourteen others. look to now since surviving communal to learn english idiom of the media. yes he did then. he. looked in the log window on issues you're not there. to hold. but those dropping. seem to care little for it's history. now sixty. just.

the last in the world with. me on the. phone. yeah i need. to look a little bit and i really. want to. know the. feel. that it's. the end you know how this will form with and when i'm out of this. and how the. shift if you'll be badly anybody. and no i got that one how do you mean.

and. jeff told me about that name. and a good idea to take. nothing. that would do the living. with the. mess. there are increasing signs that the fighting is about three tenths of. on the ground but you are only rebels are digging the widest tunnels of them so far . everyone knows the casualties are likely and they have to provide unhindered access for i'm

given schools so that wounded can be moved quickly away from the battle from. above ground form a pastry shop owner abdul iman has a rather different objective. to raise the spirits of his fellow fighters. and that now i'm a little me say that it is a little teen home alone that and. not the final. the physical and the fun in the world. but that so as of this quarter. of. the. mean the living muscles are.

all gone. then me. only. show. me man. he. meanwhile takes us to see the exact place on the frontline where the big battle is set to take place. and i'm an enjoyable. shot any besom would. have for any

one of the episode i didn't work on the moment i'm an islamic i mean you can all the. while the fighters are moving into their stock positions from all corners of job on headquarters communications team is coordinating their movements. and then at about thirty here. today. one may. not be back on the show mr shami no matter. i i. i.

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with the fighting continuing long into the night hours the plans have to be updated by commanders us tactical circumstances change. former jewelry seller. holds up a map as his squad get their orders. by the following morning neither side has yet managed to achieve a conclusive victory. but during the battle. was killed he was just twenty six.

his close friend sub dawn was one of those who carried him back to the graveyard. and mourned for a life that would never be. no longer. want to live. and one by the. love of it was one of the you. know what a little girl that. was one of thousands of people who have died in jobar in the last five years. thousands more have been grievously wounded or driven away from the shattered homes . but despite the catastrophic losses

no one here is willing to give up the struggle. that was the no the in old money. mr hayne of luck to hayden and then it did a little bit of a little job then as the line on the wall of the hole always found that the solar wind has been. you know that i met them. and their. last month the assad regime launched its fiercest assault yet. the fighting.

becomes fine. but whatever happens after five years of war this once pleasant city suburb. so beloved of its people and where so much of their blood has been spilt will never be the same again. for.

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