France, Aug. 7 -- The fall of Bashar al-Assad allowed theAbou Latif family torealise their dream of returning to their homeland of Syria this summer. But they found themselves caught up in the fighting between Druze and jihadists in the city of Sweida. Wife and mother Amjaad returned to Paris with her two children, but without her husband.

Refusing to support the repressive regime of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, Amjaad and her husband Firas decided they had no choice but to flee it.

Having studied in France between 2005 and 2011, in 2014 the couple - he an IT specialist, she a maths teacher - settled in north-west France and quickly obtained French citizenship.

From their adopted city of Rouen, the Abou Latif family - Amja...