(New York Times) Anne Barnard and Hania Mourtada - After dragging 46 bodies from the streets near his hometown on the Syrian coast, Omar lost count. Omar survived one of the darkest episodes in the Syrian war, a massacre in Tartus Province that has inflamed sectarian divisions, revealed new depths of depravity and made the prospect of stitching the country back together appear increasingly difficult. Government and rebel fighters have filmed themselves committing atrocities for the world to see. That lurid violence has fueled pessimism about international efforts to end the fighting.
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