For Syrian refugees, election shreds hope of return
 

https://s1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/U...c8d1f2bdf8.jpgFor Abu Nur, a Syrian war refugee in **rthern Leba**n, next week's certain re-election of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad buries any hope he had of returning home soon. It will **w take a "miracle from God, the all-powerful" to end the more than three-year-old conflict in Syria, the forty-something said from his grubby lodgings in the port city of Tripoli. His face covered with a scarf and using an alias, he recalls the mass protests in his hometown of Homs, in central Syria, calling for democratic reforms back in mid-March 2011. "The demonstrations against the regime were a miracle and this war will only end with a miracle," said Abu Nur, who shares a makeshift home with his wife and their five children.




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