December 8, 2024 • Assad's downfall came less than two weeks after an initial incursion west of the country's second largest city, Aleppo, triggered a cascading series of routs and retreats by ...

I first met Kevin Nelson by the fish shack. He was in a huge white pickup truck, hitched to a trailer piled high with enormous tree limbs, and I ran up to him because I wondered if he was an ...