Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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After hundreds of people were killed in massacres in Syria last week, locals say calls for justice may give the country a chance to stabilize. But as Heather Murdock reports with VOA's camera crew in the Jableh district of Syria, analysts say a humanitarian crisis feeds continued insecurity.

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