(AP) Hassan Ammar - Bashar Assad's face is everywhere, in every public square, market and street corner in Damascus, as well as on the roads and highways leading to the Syrian capital. Buoyed by military advances over the past year that have completely secured Damascus and the surrounding suburbs, the government is openly boasting about its victories. "Welcome to victorious Syria," one says. "The Assad has triumphed" reads another, a play on Assad's family name which means the lion in Arabic.
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