An essential new book by the only international journalist to have lived full-time in Damascus post-2011 shows the Assad regime’s criminality to be even worse than previously understood.

[Editor’s note: The below was one of a collection of articles written for the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the June 1967 War by a group of independent Arab media outlets, including Al-Jumhuriya, Ittijah, dona Taraddod, 7iber, Sowt, Mada Masr, Ma3azef, and Manshoor. The article was first published in Arabic on 4 June, 2017. It was translated into English by Mada Masr.] Half a…