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A man walks past the rubble of a damaged building at the Citadel of Aleppo in Syria, on Dec. 11.
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Mirella Abou Shanab, a Damascus-based TV presenter and producer, went into a pastry shop in the Syrian capital and saw armed Islamist fighters eating ice cream and cake. One of them turned to her and asked if she was Christian, Druze or Shiite and whether that’s why she wasn’t wearing a veil.
“What I worry about is that this time it may be just a question, but next time action will be taken that may endanger my life and that of any girl or woman in Damascus,” she said in a live recording on Facebook late Tuesday, looking distraught and shaken.