Seven years ago, during the Arab spring, the people of Syria peacefully protested the government of President Bashar al-Assad and asked for democratic reforms.
Assad responded to the protests with violence, triggering a brutal civil war that continues today.
The Washington Post published June 29 an emotionally moving photographic essay, Looking at the war in Syria through a Syrian photographer’s eyes, which you can view at this link.
In addition, here is the view on the ground of the Syrian war in recent months, as chronicled by the Associated Press.