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Syrian icon Assala Nasri performed a sold-out concert in Damascus, marking her return to the country after 15 years in exile. Thousands of fans cheered as the singer, dubbed the 'Daughter of Damascus,' took the stage for the first time since leaving Syria amid the civil war. Her homecoming performance is being seen as a symbolic moment for Syria's cultural life following the fall of the Assad regime, as artists and public figures who fled the conflict begin returning to the country. The concert drew widespread attention as a sign of shifting social and cultural conditions in post-Assad Syria.