As of Wednesday, August 19, hospitals continued treating the wounded. Families of the injured children, many of them primary-school pupils, waited for updates.
Local sources anticipate possible additional security operations and arrests aimed at neutralizing influential commanders challenging central directives. Whether these measures will succeed in quelling tensions or merely postpone larger confrontations remains to be seen.
For many refugees, the decision of whether to return involves weighing deep emotional ties to ancestral places against the practical realities of life.
For many refugees, the decision of whether to return involves weighing deep emotional ties to ancestral places against the practical realities of life.