For Abdel-Hayy and his family, home is now just a single room in their apartment in Syria’s ravaged east Aleppo, surrounded by the little salvageable furniture they have left. But once the government declared its recapture of the city on December 22, they came back to start the slow work of rebuilding. His home was damaged multiple times during the fierce fighting that ravaged east Aleppo from 2012 onwards. How will everything go back to how it was?’“She and her husband and their 15-year-old son stayed in east Aleppo throughout the fighting, living in the borrowed apartment after being forced out of their home. I don’t want to lose anymore,” he said, declining to discuss the family members he has lost in the war.

Source: Hindustan Times January 26, 2017 15:13 UTC