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I had to leave everything behind and spilt up my family after our town became battlefield
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I had to leave everything behind and spilt up my family after our town became battlefield
June 22, 2021
Article by: Maryam Qaiser
Published in: The Mirror
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It was 10 years ago when Ahmad Al-Rashid was living in Syria with his family. The 21-year-old student was in his third year studying for his English Literature degree – a future full of hope and aspirations.
But on 15 March 2011, the country went into a civil war.
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