Syrians abandon babies at mosques, under trees as war grinds on

By Agence France-Presse

May 25, 2023 11:18 am

HAZANO: One cold winter night, Syrian Ibrahim Othman went out to pray and came home cradling a baby girl, abandoned at the doorstep of the village mosque just hours after she was born.

'I took her home and told my wife, 'I brought you a gift',' said the 59-year-old resident of Hazano, in rebel-held northwest Syria.

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