What’s Happening in Syria, Explained
A brutal dictator is gone, but what now?
“We all feel like we've been under water, literally, for thirteen years, and we all just took a breath… And I know that there are so many people who are much older than me who have been through too much."
That was how one young Syrian described the news that rebels had overtaken the capital city of Damascus, bringing an end to Bashar al-Assad’s violent d…