"a war-ravaged city with countless muffled stories" Its streets stand as a testimony of the desperate cries of middle aged men bellowing and knocking themselves against cracked walls, mourning the merciless murders of their wives and children, it has witnessed the men in their twenties with young and fiery blood rolling in their veins, stranded and desperate sobbing into their mother's laps after losing a newly-wedded wife and an unborn child in her womb in a deadly air strike.