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Greetings from Syria, where a postwar olive harvest offers a long-lost taste of home

In the warm sun, gathering handfuls of hard olives promised a taste of home that residents of a village in the Homs countryside had been missing for nearly 14 years of civil war.
In the warm sun, gathering handfuls of hard olives promised a taste of home that residents of a village in the Homs countryside had been missing for nearly 14 years of civil war.

This article was originally published at: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/g-s1-118663/syria-olive-ha...