Syrian father and three-year-old daughter laugh off the shelling In Syria's Idlib, there's no escaping the war, so Abdullah al-Mohammed says the only way he found to reassure his daughter Salwa was to turn the shelling into a game. A video in which the three-year-old laughs every time an explosion goes off went viral on social media in recent days as a heartening but grim reminder of Idlib residents' daily lives.