Damascus, Syria CNN  —  People in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus always thought something strange was happening at the nearby state security facility. Walled off and heavily guarded, the government compound was off limits to anyone but the regime forces. So when Islamist rebels toppled Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, locals rushed to see …

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