Upon entering Siria, the scars of war are laid bare before your eyes in the most naked manner.
The villages and towns on both sides of the highway are mostly in ruins.
The crumbling walls are riddled with dense bullet holes, and massive shell craters are shocking to behold.
Many houses have been completely destroyed, leaving only a few twisted steel bars pointing towards the sky.
The windows mostly become black holes, like the eye sockets of a skull.
Burnt-out and shattered car wrecks are scattered everywhere, rusted and littering the fields and ditches, silently narrating the past carnage.
Silia Government Army checkpoints are more concentrated, with one nearly every few kilometers.
Sandbag fortifications, concrete barriers, and tank covers make up the main scenery.
The expressions on the soldiers' faces are no longer vigilant but a complex mix of tension, ferocity, and numbness.
