As a falafel maker even ahead of the war, he said he missed the real taste of falafel and is now telling the kids that this is the real falafel.

"Now it's different. I was just telling people that this year we are seeing the difference between the government and the rebels. I tell kids that this is the real falafel you have for long been hearing about," he said.

This was the celebration in Douma, which has been largely affected by war, which also affected other parts of Damascus in different degrees, even including the ones who remained under the government control.

But the situation is now different after the Syrian army recently declared the entire capital and its countryside safe for the first time in seven years after the rebels were either defeated or evacuated from the capital toward rebel-held areas in northern Syria.