Nearly two years after the fall of Assad, Syrian children return to school amid ruins

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School bells are ringing again across Syria, but for thousands of children, the return to class offers little relief, with each school day a reminder of what the war has taken. Eight-year-old Tasnim walks several kilometres home after classes each day, passing streets marked by destruction and the ruins of another school not far from her house. Her family came back to Syria two years ago, not by choice but because they had nowhere else to go. "When we returned to Damascus, I signed up for a school here. Because the schools near our house are all devastated and out of service, I moved to a scho…