Buildings are exploding left and right, smoke is rising from every corner, and soldiers are scampering across streets.
A Russian drone just provided unbelievable footage of war-torn Damascus, and, after four years of civil ar, it looks like a giant ghost town.
Russia entered the Syrian war last month, and the violence has escalated since. In 2009, Damascus' population was 1.7 million, but that number seems impossible to imagine today, especially considering that four million people have fled Syria since the war began in 2011.
Story by Allan Smith and editing by Kristen Griffin
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