00:01In this part of Damascus, it's not alcohol that adorns windows of bars, but bottles of juice.
00:07It's just one way businesses here try to avoid being targeted amid a spate of recent attacks on places that serve alcohol.
00:14One of them was at the Carawan nightclub, where three gunmen shot a woman dead and wounded others.
00:19The owner of this bar is worried.
00:23After the Assad regime fell, bars stopped working.
00:26After about a month, we reopened and started working again, and people felt safe and went back to going out at night and working.
00:35But after the recent events in Carawan nightclub and other places, people got scared, so our customers are not going out at night or staying out later anymore.
00:47An uptick in attacks coupled with the government's refusal to issue alcohol licenses has this owner worried he'll have to close up shop.
00:55He's had to look for unique solutions to the problem.
01:01Another challenge we're facing at the moment is getting an alcohol license.
01:05Almost nowhere in Syria has an alcohol license at the moment.
01:08Maybe two or three places have licenses.
01:10The rest don't.
01:12We work in the alcohol business, and currently we can't serve alcohol at all.
01:16Customers are now bringing their own alcohol, and we serve them.
01:19We're open for people to come, and we serve them juice mixers and soft drinks and water.
01:25Going out to party is now risky in Damascus.
01:30Some customers are mourning the freedoms they had before.
01:33We were very comfortable going out at night and going to bars, especially in touristy areas like this.
01:44We were carefree.
01:46We would go out until three or four or five in the morning.
01:49We were happy.
01:50We were carefree.
01:51We went out with friends, men and women together.
01:54There was no difference.
01:55Right now this isn't happening.
01:57You have to worry about everything.
01:58Britain-based war minister, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, has accused government-aligned militias of being behind one of the attacks.
02:12Government officials have, though, condemned the incident at nightclubs.
02:16Government engrossed themselves.
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