(250620) -- QABR FIDDAH (SYRIA), June 20, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Akram Mahmoud al-Shehada, a returning Syrian refugee, stands in front of the rubble of his destroyed house in Qabr Fiddah, Hama province, central Syria, on June 19, 2025. After 14 years of displacement in Jordan, al-Shehada returned earlier this year to the ruins of his village, Qabr Fiddah, near Qalaat al-Madiq in Syria's central Hama province. His stone house, built brick by brick over decades of labor, was flattened during the war. Yet instead of despair, he chose to stay and start over. (Str/Xinhua) TO GO WITH Feature: After 14 years, Syrian refugees return home to rebuild life on dust and dreams