The people of Damascus, the Syrian capital, and its surrounding areas say that they feel "suffocated" even as the shelling has stopped and President Bashar al-Assad retains power with Syria's civil war now entering its 11th year.Amidst the ruins, people are not only dealing with war trauma but a flailing economy and the coronavirus pandemic, making it that much harder to pick up the pieces of their broken lives, a reporter from Kyodo News has found -- the first time that a Japanese media organization has entered Damascus since the coronavirus began spreading there last spring.According to A…READ FULL ARTICLE
