After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Afaf Mohammed did what she could not for more than a decade: she climbed Mount Qasyun to admire a sleeping Damascus "from the sky" and watch the sun rise. Through the long years of Syria's civil war, which began in 2011 with a government crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, people... read full story
"during the war we weren't allowed up to Mount Qasyun. There were few public places that were truly accessible."