The academic year went by in the camps and among the ruins, under the shadow of artillery fire, and on Sunday 14,739 students of all grades held their end-of-year exam.

Students from the 70 schools in the villages of Shehba and Sherawa districts held their exams which, as Fadil Çawîs, co-chair of Afrin Education and Training Board told ANHA, will continue until Wednesday 25 May.

Çawîş said that the number of students in the preparatory and middle schools is 3,325, and the number of students in primary education is 11,468. He underlined that artillery and attacks are usually aimed at schools and added: “We will continue education despite the bombardments against the region. We will develop our society through education.”

As a result of the invasion attacks launched by the Turkish army on Afrin in January 2018, 68 schools were destroyed and thousands of students were displaced, injured and lost their lives in the bombardments.