Back to school for some young Syrians Pictures Back to school for some young Syrians Syrian children attend class at the public school in Madaya village as classes begin in the Idlib province countryside of Syria, Sept. Millions of Syrian children, most of them in government-controlled areas, have returned to school in the past two weeks, despite the conflict that according to UNICEF has left 4,000 Syrian schools, or one in five, damaged, destroyed or sheltering displaced families. Credit: AP