Warnings of worrying rise in northwest Syria suicide rate among women
LARA BELLONE D’ALTAVILLA and SAMER DABOUL STARING out into the Idlib countryside, Umm Amal gazes at the young children walking through the muddy roads of northwest Syria and tearfully remembers her own daughter will never return home. Her daughter, Amal, took her own life earlier this year at 21, having spent her adolescence in a war zone, then survived child marriage, and then been forced to flee her home and settle in a displacement camp. “Amal was the joy of my life. She was loved by everyone. How I long to see her smile again,” said Umm Amal, who asked…