her six children and her husband – who passed away two months ago from unknown causes – were uprooted from the al-Hajar al-Aswad neighbourhood, a suburb of Damascus. They moved to Madinat al ...

Then, in late December, rumour spread that safe passage was opening for civilians between the neighbourhood of Sbeineh and Hajar al-Aswad, where the Awad family lived. Nasra, Ahmed and their two ...