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FILE PHOTO: Syria s President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma, plant trees in city of Draykish, near Tartous, Syria December 30, 2020. SANA/Handout via REUTERS
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma have recovered from COVID-19 and have tested negative for the disease, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday.
“After the end of the quarantine period, symptoms of COVID-19 and negative PCR results, President Bashar al-Assad and Mrs Asma al-Assad have resumed their work normally,” the presidency said in a statement.
The Syrian presidency had announced that Assad and his wife, who announced her recovery from breast cancer in 2019, had tested positive on March 8.
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By Mahmoud Hassouna
ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Mohammed Abu Rdan has known nothing but conflict throughout his short life.
Born in rural Aleppo in 2011 when peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad s government began, his childhood is anything but typical.
The protests quickly turned into a multi-sided conflict that has sucked in world powers, killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions more and with it upended Abu Rdan s life.
Now living in a displaced peoples camp in northern Aleppo, Abu Rdan has become his family s main breadwinner after heart disease rendered his father unfit to work.
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A decade after Syria s war began, memories haunt a family it tore apart
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DOUMA, Syria (Reuters) - Seham Hamu lost her husband, son and grand-daughter on the same night in 2016 when a missile struck their home in Douma, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the civil war.
Now, aged 74 and confined to a wheelchair because of a heart condition, she looks after her son s four surviving children, a widowed daughter and a second daughter along with her husband and their children.
Their plight is not unusual in a country where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed during a decade of violence and millions more forced to flee their homes and settle elsewhere in Syria or abroad.
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