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We hear from people across Syria and asking if President Bashar al-Assad is now winning the so-called Battle for Damascus?

We hear from people across Syria and asking if President Bashar al-Assad is now winning the so-called Battle for Damascus.

A BBC team has visited strategically important town of Qusair and found it in ruins.
BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet described the return of the city to government control as a strategic victory but a humanitarian disaster.

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