And striking off fire by dashing their hoofs.

And striking off fire by dashing their hoofs.

And can anyone believe, even fleetingly, that Russia s intervention will lessen, rather than aggravate, Syria s refugee crisis? Putin s methods are forcing tens of thousands of civilians to flee indiscriminate airstrikes, clearing the way for the death squads of a regime that in recent months had been showing signs of exhaustion, and dashing any remaining hope of creating effective safe zones in northern Jordan and southern Turkey.