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Syria and Civil War

: Even a simple stroll in the park was out of the question, according to The Chronicle Herald. Nobody was hurt when the bullet hit their fridge. For nearly five years the Badour family watched helplessly as Syria brutal civil war engulfed their home city of Homs: gunfire, bombings, kidnappings, and attacks on schools that forced their children to stay home. But Syria civil war had literally come home for the Badours. We didn't really know who was doing what. Toufic fled to Beirut, taking his wife Najwa and their four children — Diana, 18, their 16-year-old son Yarob, nine-year-old Yara, and their youngest daughter Jewel, aged one — with him. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.