Residents queue up to receive humanitarian aid at the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, in Damascus, Syria, March 11, 2015. The following is an excerpt from Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto Press) by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami. You can buy the book here. According to defected diplomat Bassam Barabandi, “Assad learned from the […]