Children Return to Bombed-Out School in Syria Frontline Town

Syrian school children stand in a classroom in a makeshift school in the opposition-held side of the divided northern town of Tadif, located about 32 kilometers (20 miles) east of Aleppo city, on September 26, 2022. (AFP)

In a frontline town divided by regime and opposition forces in northwest Syria, students have returned to classrooms in a bombed-out building with no glass in the windows, no doors, desks, chairs or electricity.

Girls carrying pink backpacks play alongside boys with blue ones in the courtyard of their school in Tadif, some 32 kilometers (20 miles) east of Aleppo city.