Children play in a destroyed house in the village of al-Hawash in Syria's west-central Hama province on May 22, 2025. Since Islamist forces ousted Assad after nearly 14 years of war, 1.87 million Syrians who were refugees abroad or internally displaced have returned to their areas of origin, the United Nations' International Organization for Migration says. (Photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP Photo)
