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Created: 2025-07-10 12:24:14 UTC

When the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011, 26-year-old Mohammed Abdel Rahman Ibrahim was tutoring students using his degree in advanced mathematics.

He was still living with his parents on the southern fringe of Damascus.

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