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Middle East & Africa | Syria's war THE AXIS POWER BASHAR ASSAD HOLDS THE LINE AS THE REBELS FEAR THEY ARE BEING LET DOWN By The Economist | AZAZ LAST week President Bashar Assad’s


aircraft dropped bombs on the market in Azaz, a town near the border with Turkey north of Aleppo, killing 20 civilians. “It’s enough!” shouts Abdullah Mahmoud Haj Saed, standing amid a pile


of rubble dotted with household possessions: a shoe here, a telephone there. “Does the world like seeing Syrian blood?”