In the streets of besieged Idlib — one of the last rebel-held areas in Syria — a man passed out sweets on Jan. 3 to celebrate the U.S. airstrike that killed a commander who has been at the center of Syria’s civil war from the beginning: Qasem Soleimani.
Washington Post: Soleimani helped shape the brutality of the Syrian war
Mohammed Mohiedin Anis, or Abu Omar, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom listening to music on his vinyl player, gramophone, in Aleppo's formerly rebel-held al-Shaar neighbourhood.
