A flock of robins — yes, robins — was gobbling down frozen fruit in a yard not far from the river. There were a couple dozen of them, a coterie that had obviously deigned to fly south, and they were ...
President Bashar al-Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address. By Ben HubbardFarnaz ...