Abdullah Estefan, 54, inside the Latakia Roman Catholic Church. He’s originally from a village in northern Syria which was occupied by foreign and Syrian Islamist fighters during the civil war.

Abdullah Estefan, 54, inside the Latakia Roman Catholic Church. He’s originally from a village in northern Syria which was occupied by foreign and Syrian Islamist fighters during the civil war.

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During the more than decade-long civil war in Syria, millions were displaced in the country and millions more fled abroad as refugees. It’s been almost a year since the war ended and many Syrians are starting to come home.

Some have found their houses destroyed but others have found strangers have been living in their homes, sometimes for years. We go to Syria to see how locals are dealing with the thorny issue of ownership after war.