Khaled and his three-year-old daughter Jawahir have only ever met on the phone. She was not yet born when he fled Syria in 2018, aiming to apply for family .
Many residential buildings in northwestern Syria were already weakened by years of bombing or built in ways that did not meet engineering and construction s .
DAMASCUS Abu Firas left his home in the Latakia countryside village of Istamo at dawn on February 6, heading for the local bakery to buy bread. As soon as .