Fadel Dergham, a 13-year-old displaced Syrian boy, poses for a picture at an auto body shop that employs him in Sarmada in the rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on March 14, 2024. Fadel fled the city of Aleppo in 2016 and settled with his family in Sarmada.
He dropped out of school at the end of the first grade and in 2020 was employed at an auto body shop as a painter.
On March 15, 2024, Syria will mark 13 years since the government's brutal suppression of the 2011 uprising that triggered a civil war which has killed more than half a million people, drawn in foreign armies and jihadists, and divided the country. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)