Ahmed al-Muhammad, a 13-year-old displaced Syrian boy, sprays water against a vehicle at a car wash that employs him near Sarmada in the rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on March 14, 2024. Ahmed fled the town of Abu Dhahur in the eastern part of the rebel-held Idlib province, with his family in 2018 to settle at a camp for displaced people in Sarmada.
He dropped out of school as of the first grade in 2022 to start working at a car wash.
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)