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The sad history behind the Syria crisis

On February 3, 1982, an armed insurgent group belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood took control of a substantial part of the city of Hama in central Syria. The reaction of the Syrian regime headed by Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar, was immediate. After blockading the parts of the city controlled by the insurgents, he […]

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