Title: Syria sweet smell
Published: Ventura County Reporter
Date: Jan. 5, 2017
About this cartoon: The brutal, bloody civil war in Syria had tipped to the side of its president, Bashar Assad, thanks largely to massive Russian airstrikes against rebel forces. The toll in major cities like Aleppo was staggering in both casualties and refugees, but Russia, as well as Iran, kept their man Assad in power.