Displaced Kurdish family, who fled violence after a Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria, sit at a public school used as shelter where they live now in Hasakah, Syria, October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
HASAKAH, Syria (Reuters) - Two weeks ago, 13-year-old Leith Ahmed was busy studying English and Arabic at school in northeastern Syria when a sudden Turkish cross-border attack forced him and his family to run for their lives.
Now they are stuck in a crowded classroom 80 km (50 miles) away in the town of Hasakah where Kurdish officials running an autonomous administration for years are scrambling to cope with an influx of displaced people.
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