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Homs, Syria's third largest city, saw some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

But he doesn't know whether he'll get work in Homs to help pay the rent for the flat.

He can't forget how they escaped at the height of the battle for Homs.

Thirteen years after civil war forced her to leave, she's back in her native city, Homs in Syria, blinking in the sunshine as she steps off a bus crammed with returning women and children, part of a long convoy of coaches and trucks.

Homs, like most parts of Syria, gets only a few hours of electricity a day.