By Niclas Hammarström – In 2013 Magnus Falkehed and Niclas Hammarström visited the mountain plateau Qualamoun which is located northwest of the Syrian capital Damascus. Where the FSA (Free Syrian Army) is fighting against the Assad regime. This is where one of the most important battles takes place. The civilians suffering is infinite – The bombs are falling and the famine is heavy.
Amjad Hamad, 26 years old, has his silver Colt 45 attached to his belt. He is the leader of the katiba.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmAmjad Hamad, 26 years old, has his silver Colt 45 attached to his belt. He is the leader of the katiba.
Here in the partly destroyed church of Maaloula.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmThe old church of Maaloula is partly destroyed after the regime bombed it.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmAmjad Hamad (left), 26 years old, has his silver Colt 45 attached to his belt. He is the leader of the katiba.
Al Aumda (right), 45 years old, is the mayor and FSA leader of the group that holds the Safir hotel above the town and the monastery. They are called the martyrs of Maaloula.
He used to cultivate fruits in the area.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmIm Hammad is divorced and lives from the help of the seven children of the family. The son, Muhammad, is 16 years old. He fought against the regime and got three bullets in the stomach. After he went back home the house collapsed and his previous wounds openned up so they had to sew it back again in a secret hospital.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmYabrud, Syria
The small blood reserve of the secret hospital is stored in a soda fridge.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmA three hours old baby boy is being taken care of by a nurse as the his mother is suffering from an infection. The hospital is a secret hostpial.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmSoldiers are together with their friend who got shot during a battle. They are in a secret field hospital.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmThe FSA is planning an attack against the regime, together with several groups of Al-Qaida. Eventually the FSA didn't get involved in the attack.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmDr. Abu Muhammad in a secret clinic three miles north of Damascus. The only one.
Of the 12000 antidote to sarin gas, only 100 produced arrived.
Someone gave 300,000 dollars for the clinic but only 50,000 arrived.
- Thieves have no name here, says the doctor.
He became deaf in his right ear after a bomb detonation. The blast of a bomb blew out a wall in the clinic.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmA patient of the clinic.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmMarked by the war in Yabrud.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmMarked by the war in Yabrud.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmFamily in Rima.
The children are between 7 and 14 years old. They play on a bombed farm with shrapnel everywhere. They try to warm up with a stack of firewood.
Photo: Niclas HammarstromFamily in Rima.
Bombs are dropped around when we are there. They have been there for seven months.
The children have become experts at listening to the sounds of different aircrafts and bombs and run immediately to the shelter.
The mother, Raija, comes from Bab Amr and has a cancer. She has a bag of chemicals but no one knows how they should be administered.
The father is Abu Bilal.
Photo: Niclas HammarstromFamily in Rima.
The mother, Raija, comes from Bab Amr and has a cancer. She has a bag of chemicals but no one knows how they should be administered.
Photo: Niclas HammarstromNour Am Hammad, 13 years old, comes from al-Quasir. She lives with her grandfather, her dad his gone since three months.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmFamily in Rima.
Bombs are dropped around when we are there. They have been there for seven months.
The children have become experts at listening to the sounds of different aircrafts and bombs and run immediately to the shelter.
The mother, Raija, comes from Bab Amr and has a cancer. She has a bag of chemicals but no one knows how they should be administered.
The father is Abu Bilal.
Photo: Niclas HammarstromAmjad Hamad, 26 years old, has his silver Colt 45 attached to his belt. He is the leader of the katiba.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmA group of FSA fighters guarding one of the entrances to Yabroud in a camp captured in December 2011. On the wall pictures of Hafez Bachar.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmA group of FSA fighters guarding one of the entrances to Yabroud in a camp captured in December 2011. On the wall pictures of Hafez Bachar.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmThe sun sets down behind the shattered houses. The war goes on.
Photo: Niclas HammarströmOusama and Abdo are two young fighter in the FSA. Abdo cuts Ousama's hair. "It costs 2.5 dollars to get a haircut here, so often it's a friend who does it for me."
Photo: Niclas Hammarström
