Moises Saman Photographs Syria’s Descent Into Civil War

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The bombing in Damascus “emboldened the rebels to go on the offensive, for a moment suggesting that a perfect storm would lead to the imminent fall of the regime,” Saman wrote to me from his home base in Cairo. “Here we are a month later, with people dying at a rate of about sixty per day, as both sides hunker down and prepare for a long and vicious civil war that will inevitably affect any chance at further reconciliation.”