War-battered Syria now sells itself as a safe corridor amid regional conflict

Ahed Badawi lived for much than a decennary successful Bahrain, a tiny Gulf state that — dissimilar her autochthonal Syria — seldom made headlines.

It provided a refuge for her, her sister and their aged parent during Syria’s 14 years of civilian war. “Nothing astatine each ever happened there,” she said. “I mean, the Bahrainis don’t adjacent cognize what warfare is.”