August 18, 2020.

Syria. Queen Elizabeth. Iowa's derecho.

Kansafra, in Idlib province, northwest Syria, suffers bombing from Syrian government forces on July 29, 2020.

Syria is irreparably broken.

The Syrian civil war began in March 2011 with uprisings in Damascus, the capital, and in Aleppo, a major city in Syria’s northwest that has been a hub of international trade for thousands of years. Nine years later, i…