Elizabeth Tsurkov is a research fellow focusing on Syria at the Forum for Regional Thinking, an Israeli think-tank. Mohammad Hasan al-Homsi is an activist and journalist from Palmyra. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/elizabeth-tsurkov-and-mohammad-hasan-al-homsi/rss en Displacement ISIS Fri, 14 Oct 2016 08:07:48 +0000 Elizabeth Tsurkov and Mohammad Hasan al-Homsi https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2016/10/14/elizabeth-tsurkov-and-mohammad-hasan-al-homsi https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2016/10/14/elizabeth-tsurkov-and-mohammad-hasan-al-homsi It has been seven months since the Syrian regime and its allies “liberated” the ancient city of Palmyra from ISIS control, but residents without ties to the Syrian government have still not been allowed to go back home.