Graffiti to civil war: 3 years of Syrian turmoil PARIS (AP) — It started as a challenge to Bashar Assad, scrawled in graffiti on a school in a small Syrian border town. Security forces swept into the school and rounded up a handful of boys.

Graffiti to civil war: 3 years of Syrian turmoil PARIS (AP) — It started as a challenge to Bashar Assad, scrawled in graffiti on a school in a small Syrian border town. Security forces swept into the school and rounded up a handful of boys.