cnn's clarissa ward has more from northern syria on civilians paying the price for the u.s. exit. >> reporter: class should be in session now. but here in hasaqa the school has become a temporary shelter for displaced people in one classroom we meet ibrahim hassan. the kurdish father of five tells us he was forced to flee his home in ras al ayin with his children when the turkish military operation began. this is what remains of his house. ibrahim says it is one of many in his kurdish neighborhood that was deliberately ransacked by turkish-backed forces. >> translator: they took everything. and after they took all our belongings they set it on fire, burned it all. >> reporter: just days before the offensive began ibrahim's children had posed smiling with u.s. troops patrolling the area.