A decade after Syria's war began, memories haunt a family it tore apart


  • World
  • Friday, 12 Mar 2021

A street vendor waits for customers in Douma, in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, Syria March 9, 2021. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

DOUMA, Syria (Reuters) - Seham Hamu lost her husband, son and grand-daughter on the same night in 2016 when a missile struck their home in Douma, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the civil war.

Now, aged 74 and confined to a wheelchair because of a heart condition, she looks after her son's four surviving children, a widowed daughter and a second daughter along with her husband and their children.

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