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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Friday, April 13th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

Seven years into the war in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad is capturing the last rebel strongholds.

Part of this offensive took place on Saturday in Duma, a suburb of Damascus,

where civilians suffered hundreds of casualties in a suspected chemical weapons attack by the government.

At an emergency Security Council meeting at the UN,

Nikki Haley, the American ambassador,

blamed Russia for much of the humanitarian crisis.

We must not overlook Russia and Iran's roles in enabling the Assad regime's murderous destruction.

Russia and Iran have military advisors at Assad's airfields and

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