Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has won a fourth term in office with 95 percent of the vote in a ballot dismissed abroad as a farce. With the conflict mostly on hold but his country’s economy in ruins, what are Assad’s priorities likely to be when he kicks off his first post-war mandate? What’s in a […]
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