Bashar al-Assad
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Syrian rebels declared President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday (Dec 8), forcing him to flee and ending his family’s decades of rule after more than 13 years of civil war in a seismic moment for the Middle East. The rebels also dealt a major blow to the influence of Russia…
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TEN YEARS ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then prime minister of Turkey, hosted Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad for a family holiday in the Aegean resort of Bodrum as relations between Turkey and Syria soared to new heights. After decades of Cold War animosity, the Erdogan government that took power in 2002 had built new ties with its southern neighbor and trade and…
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