Syria has been flooded with imports in the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s ousting, with the end of dollar restrictions and exorbitant tariffs leading to a boom in goods that disappeared from shelves during the civil war.

In the weeks since Assad was deposed in an offensive led by Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, imported western and regional goods have poured into shops.

Around the capital Damascus, stores are now lined with Turkish bottled water, Saudi-produced bouillon cubes, Lebanese powdered milk and western chocolate brands such as Twix and Snickers. In one supermarket in the centre of the city, an entire wall was dedicated to Pringles.

“Everything imported you see is new,” one worker in a supermarket said, adding that people were most excited about cheese cubes and drinks such as Pepsi. “Everything we used to sell used to be Syrian produced.”