CNN: As ISIS shrinks, Syrians return home and discover a wasteland
Two boys in their early teens swing sledgehammers, knocking down what remains of a wall. Another is hauling pieces of wood across the rubble-strewn dirt in front of the house, or what was the house of Qais Diab Al-Sharina.
One week ago, Al-Sharina and his children returned to their former home in the town of Hajin, on the Euphrates River in eastern Syria. A coalition of US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Kurdish soldiers and Arab tribesmen liberated Hajin from the so-called Islamic State in December.
In the process, nearly every building in Hajin's centre was damaged or destroyed. "Life was hard under ISIS," said Al-Sharina, a man in his forties. "But it's still hard, harder still with this destruction." The back wall of his house has been completely demolished, and the front pocked with bullets. Every window in the house has been blown out.
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WNU Editor: ISIS and its legacy destroyed everything. No ifs or buts about it. It is going to take generations to recover from this catastrophe.
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Thanks to God, now they can go back to their homes and feel comfortable
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