Syrians take measures of the entrance of their factory as they prepare to renovate it in Aleppo's Kallase industrial neighbourhood on July 5, 2017. Six months after Syria's army captured the country's one-time economic powerhouse, dozens of manufacturers with small and medium-sized factories are cautiously returning to the city's east, once a stronghold of opposition fighters. Syria's conflict has ravaged the country's economy since it began in March 2011 with anti-government protests, before spiralling into a complex war that has killed over 320,000 people. / AFP PHOTO / JOSEPH EID