The rare phenomenon of the appearance of the milky way has been captured by an AFP journalist. A striking effect between the sky and the ruins.
This is a rare show that took place in the skies of Syria. In this country devastated by the war, a trail of white was studded in the night from Friday to Saturday, the sky above the ruins of the deserted town of Ariha, which was ravaged by violence.
The appearance before the dawn of the milky way, rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly in the summer sky without the moon, has created a striking contrast between the sky and the earth, immortalized by a photographer of the AFP due to long exposure photos.
The milky way captured in the sky of the syrian above the ruins Ariha.
Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP
In this vast cloud of stars, the skeletons of buildings, the rubble, the facades and roofs ripped seem all the more appalling.
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desolate City
The city, perched in a mountain area of Idlib province called “Jabal al-Arba’in”, has long been a tourist site popular in Syria. Pine trees, hotels, restaurants : the sweetness of life that reigned there formerly attracted many visitors.
The ruins of the deserted town of Ariha, illuminated by the milky way.
Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP
now deserted, it has been the subject in the beginning of the year, like other local areas and surrounding towns, a large offensive of the syrian regime, supported by the Russian aviation, to take it to the jihadists of the group-Hayat al-Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), ex-branch of the syrian Al-Qaeda) and secure a highway strategic (M4), pushing its nearly 70 000 people to flee en masse to safer areas. But the city, which was ravaged, remained in the hands of HTS, and the nightmare seems not to be finished.
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More than nine years after the beginning of the war, Ariha and the region of Idlib city, the last bastion of the jihadist and rebel beyond the power of Damascus, remain in the crosshairs of the regime in spite of a fragile ceasefire came into force in march.
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The conflict in Syria, triggered in 2011 by the suppression of demonstrations pro-democracy by Damascus, has already made more than 380 000 people dead – including more than 115,000 civilians, and driven to the leak of millions of people.
