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‘In two days, it all came crashing down': A French-Syrian family torn apart

A Druze militiaman carrying a machine gun walks past a burned-out car following recent sectarian clashes in the Druze-majority town of Sweida, Syria, Friday, 25 July, 2025. AP - Omar Sanadiki

The fall of Bashar al-Assad allowed the Abou Latif family to realise their dream of returning to their homeland of Syria this summer. But they found themselves caught up in the fighting between Druze and jihadists in the city of Sweida. Wife and mother Amjaad returned to Paris with her two children, but without her husband.

Refusing to support the repressive regime of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, Amjaad and her husband Firas decided they had no choice but to flee it.

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