Mohamed Al-Ahmad, a 13-year-old displaced Syrian boy, works at an auto repair shop near Sarmada in the rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on March 14, 2024. Mohammed fled with his family in 2015 from the town of Aziziyah in the rebel-held southern part of the Aleppo province to the town of Burj al-Namra in the northwestern Idlib province.
He intermittently enrolled in various schools until he reached the sixth grade but was obliged in 2022 to interrupt his schooling in order to help his family financially.
He now works as a helper at a car repair garage near Sarmada in the Idlib province.
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)