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After the Battle of Midan
The rubble remains. The stain on the nation is there. The rebel fighters’ puny barricades were overrun with ease by Syrian’s military might by land and by air. Yes – the Battle of Midan has been won. The war, is quite another matter, writes Alex Thomson from Syria.