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What Victory on Assad’s Terms Looks Like in Syria

What Victory on Assad’s Terms Looks Like in Syria
A poster of President Bashar al-Assad, which reads in Arabic, “we have lived and we live so that Syria can live in the heart of Bashar Assad,” hangs on the ruins of a house in Ghouta, Syria, July 15, 2018 (AP photo by Hassan Ammar).

“Is that a warplane over us?” a doctor asks.

“Yes, it is,” says another, as an airstrike rumbles overhead. “Don’t look so frightened. It will be alright.”

“Don’t worry dear,” a different doctor tells one of his patients. “We don’t have anesthesia, but we have music.”

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