Students attend class inside the Maar Shmarin Primary School, its walls scarred by bullet holes from the fighting between forces loyal to former President Bashar Assad and rebel groups, in the village of Maar Shmarin, in the Idlib countryside, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
A student reads a book while leaning against a wall of the Maar Shmarin Primary School, its surface scarred by bullet holes from the fighting between forces loyal to former President Bashar Assad and rebel groups, in the village of Maar Shmarin, in the Idlib countryside, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Students attend class inside the Maar Shmarin Primary School, its walls scarred by bullet holes from the fighting between forces loyal to former President Bashar Assad and rebel groups, in the village of Maar Shmarin, in the Idlib countryside, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
A student reads a book while leaning against a wall of the Maar Shmarin Primary School, its surface scarred by bullet holes from the fighting between forces loyal to former President Bashar Assad and rebel groups, in the village of Maar Shmarin, in the Idlib countryside, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
A teacher conducts a lesson with students inside a classroom of the Maar Shmarin Primary School in the village of Maar Shmarin, in the Idlib countryside, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Students take part in an activity inside a classroom of the Maar Shmarin Primary School in the village of Maar Shmarin, in the Idlib countryside, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
A classroom inside a school destroyed during the fighting between forces loyal to former President Bashar Assad and rebel groups is seen in the devastated Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
In the southern Idlib countryside, once a frontline in Syrian civil war, residents are trickling back to their villages after years in exile.
Repairing and reopening damaged and looted schools is key to the return of the displaced, but nearly a year after former President Bashar Assad was ousted in a rebel offensive, .
Millions of children in Syria remain out of school, while others are attending class in gutted buildings without basic supplies.
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