2025-08-05
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What would you do
if you were sailing on a ship far from loved ones and you didn't know when you'd be able to set foot on land again?
For the crew of the cargo ship, the Avantour,
the Covid pandemic made this nightmare scenario a reality.
What is happening?
to the people we love that are home.
Lives Less Ordinary from the BBC World Service tells their remarkable story in a new eight-part series.
Listen now.
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Welcome to The Inquiry with me, Tanya Beckett, from the BBC World Service.
One question, four expert witnesses and an answer.
On the 13th of July, Fadlala Dawara, a man from the Druze community in southern Syria,
was on his way home to Soweda when his truck was hijacked by a group of armed men.
The vegetable seller was pulled out of his vehicle, beaten, then abandoned on the side of the road.
The attackers took his money and phone and left with his truck, vegetables and all.
The highway robbery set off a week-long cycle of deadly violence that left over 1,000 people dead and over 125,000 displaced.
Several days of tit-for-tat attacks followed between Druze and Bedouin fighters,
all, along with the Syrian army, were accused of killing civilians.
The violence even drew in Israel, which launched attacks on the Syrian capital, Damascus.