The Little Syrian Town That Could

The amazing protest posters of occupied Kafr Anbel.

BY DAVID KENNER | JULY 5, 2012

 

Here Assad sits much less comfortably atop a brewing volcano in Damascus. The poster reflects protesters' hopes that the Syrian government will soon lose control in the capital -- a hope stoked in recent days by rebel attacks on the Palace of Justice and a base of the elite Republican Guards in Damascus. As violence spread in Damascus, Assad for the first time described the situation in Syria as a "state of war."

Kafr Anbel Revolution Facebook

 

David Kenner is an associate editor at Foreign Policy.