Jobar, on the outskirts of Damascus, was heavily damaged by shelling during the Syrian civil war. Ahmad Fallaha / The National
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'Like living in the desert': Syrians brave dangers to return home in heavily shelled neighbourhoods

With fighting subsiding since the fall of the Assad regime but rents rising in Damascus, residents who had been forced to leave areas near the capital are now rebuilding their lives in the ruins of their former homes