Last month, hundreds of residents of the rural town of Mneen, outside Damascus, took to the streets to protest a government project to construct a well they say would divert water resources to the neighboring city of al-Tal. Protesters gathered around the town’s fountain, which was also the site of demonstrations in 2011, when the Syrian revolution began. Local residents and officials in Mneen say the provincial authorities have pushed the proj…
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