Mustafah never imagined that he would ever have to leave his paternal hometown of Al Qusayr in Syria, where he had spent all 70 years of his life. A herder with a small piece of land and a large family, he fled with the women and children in his household, as life in his city, now an open battlefield, became “impossible to endure.”
Al Qusayr has become a key city, with battles raging in the area between the armed opposition and the Syrian government forces.
Because of its location on a road that links to Damascus and is also the main supply route from Lebanon for the opposition forces, Qusayr is a strategically important point of control for both sides.
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