Rasha found her sons missing five years ago, but Save the Children reunited them at one of Syria's displacement camps.
A mother has been reunited with her children in Syria after her husband kidnapped them and took them into Islamic State-held territory.
Save the Children took the boys, now aged 11 and nine, into their care and began looking for their mother.Rasha said:"While I lost them, I didn't rest. Every day I would pray, and fast, and ask God to see them again."I always believed that I would see them again - for five years, I didn't lose hope... every time I heard a child cry for his mother, my heart wept.
Despite the years of separation and the young ages at which the boys were taken from her, Yousef and Mohammed, whose names have been changed, remembered their mother. Their happy reunion comes as Save the Children says more than half of Syrian children are facing family breakdown, separation and bereavement, and that more than a third of them feel unsafe"always or frequently".The charity surveyed 365 children from Idlib, Aleppo, al-Raqqa and al-Hassakeh, who told them they are worried about violence, insecurity, and housing, as well as being separated from their families.
Save the Children says 5 million children in Syria are in need of humanitarian assistance, and that 2.5 million are internally displaced.Sara, 14, plays in goal during a football match at Save the Children's child friendly space in Ein Issa camp, Syria
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