"They tore everything away": the Damascus neighborhood that Assad wanted to wipe off the map

Like ancient sentinels, the hills rise in western Damascus, guarding the Syrian capital with the same solemnity with which, in the east, the mountains of rubble rise in its suburbs, silent witnesses to the devastation. For fourteen years, the city has resisted the ravages of war, but beyond its borders, the destruction is absolute. The Jobar neighborhood, once home to 300,000 people, crumbles on the other side of its borders. This suburb is The grim legacy that the regime's brutality has left behind for the future of Syria.