Syria fires ravage livelihoods ahead of harvest

Tartus, Syria (AFP) Oct 12, 2020

Suhail Deeb was eager to harvest his olives before sweeping forest fires that ravaged parts of Syria at the weekend left him with nothing but charred trunks and branches. "I used to have 100 trees, but now nothing is left," said the 61-year-old farmer at his blackened olive grove in the western province of Tartus. "Everything has turned to ashes," he said, sadly snapping a soot-covered,