Visiting his house in the town of Harasta for the first time in six years, Danny Makki couldn’t recognize it. The rebels agreed to lay down their arms in return for safe passage to opposition-held northwestern Syria. Makki passed a water station on the edge of town that not long ago had been a front-line battle zone. “I just saw streets full of rubble so deep you couldn’t even see the ground at some point,” he said. The apartment itself was a shell, walls blasted open to the street on three sides, floors piled with wreckage.

Source: National Post March 28, 2018 14:26 UTC