Attacks on the Press

1. Where I’ve Never 
Set Foot

By Alessandria Masi

Syrian children react after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad near the Syrian Arab Red Crescent center in Damascus on May 6, 2015.

(Reuters/Bassam Khabieh)

The morning after the attack my deputy editor and I lit cigarettes as we squatted on the green couch in our closet-sized Beirut office, hanging out the window and talking about what we thought had really happened in Syria.

Here were the facts: On September 17, 2016, the U.S. and several coalition partners had launched several air strikes on a Syrian military base in the province of Deir Ezzor, ...