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5 ways the Syrian revolution continues

  • Written by Wendy Pearlman, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
A Syrian refugee child sits on the window of his family's trailer home painted by refugee artists in a camp near Mafraq, Jordan. AP/Raad Adayleh

Bashar al-Assad has “won” the war in Syria – or so many analysts tell us.

His regime has reconquered swaths of territory from rebel forces with starvation-and-surrender sieges, barrel...

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