The Syria I came back to is not the one I left
BBC Middle East correspondent Lina Sinjab left her home in the Syrian capital Damascus in 2013, soon after the start of the civil war. Recently she was able to travel back for the first time in years, finding a country both very familiar and utterly changed./ Entering Syria, the scene was as I remembered it - the same mountain, the same oak trees and the same big posters of the president, providing a vivid reminder of who is in charge here./ But few of the people coming in were Syrians. Most were religious tourists from Lebanon and Iraq, ...
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