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A brazen nighttime prison release. Presidential posters set on fire. Children playing in the halls of a palace once controlled by the former regime. The fall of Damascus, Syria’s capital, happened quickly and dramatically, and much of what we know a

We arrived in Damascus early Monday, after passing surreal scenes on the highway leading into the city from Lebanon. Scattered across the main highway to the Syrian capital are newfound relics of the government of Bashar al-Assad whose oppressive ru