More than a million people have left Syria to escape what is now more than two years of fighting.
In the Christian village of Yacoubiyah, many say their families have fled to safer places, both inside and outside the country.
Those who have chosen to stay are confronting new fears close to home, they told Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Yacoubiyah, in Idlib province.