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Part One: Bashar al Assad: The Eye Doctor Who Murdered a Nation

Behind the Bastards

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The Dude, Where Is My Wife?

In the summer of 2015, I found myself crossing the Serbian-Hungarian border on foot and walking along what was then known as the refugee trail. That year more than a million people, mostly Syrians, fled the blood and chaos of war in the hope of a better life. Through it all, I interviewed at least a couple of hundred Syrian citizens. They told me horrible stories of barrel bombs killing multiple members of their family in the same day.

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