Residents remove rubble from damaged buildings in the al-Hajar al-Aswad neighbourhood on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria. File
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Ahed Badawi lived for more than a decade in Bahrain, a small Gulf country that — unlike her native Syria — rarely made headlines.
It provided a refuge for her, her sister and their elderly mother during Syria’s 14 years of civil war. “Nothing at all ever happened there,” she said. “I mean, the Bahrainis don’t even know what war is.”
Published – May 01, 2026 12:55 pm IST