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Meet the two (other) candidates running in the presidential election set to keep Bashar al-Assad in power.
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David Kenner is Middle East editor at Foreign Policy.
Follow via RSSMeet the two (other) candidates running in the presidential election set to keep Bashar al-Assad in power.
BEIRUT – Amid opposition claims of new Syrian chemical weapons attacks, President Bashar al-Assad is fast approaching an important deadline for removing his stockpiles of the deadly armaments from from the country. It doesn’t appear that he’s going to meet it.
Foreign Policy’s David Kenner on why the Syrian leader will win this year’s presidential elections, even after three years of conflict.
BEIRUT — They say a picture is worth a thousand words. The one below – showing residents of the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, located outside Damascus – may be worth even more than that.
CAIRO - In a town that lies less than eight miles from the center of Damascus, Syrians are starving to death. Some children in Muadamiyah have resorted to eating leaves to survive, while a group of Muslim clerics also issued a fatwa that the consumption of dogs and cats was permissible for the area’s residents.
BEIRUT - It was Sept. 4, and the war drums were sounding in Syria. The United States appeared to be on the verge of launching strikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The following is a cross-post of an item by David Kenner on Foreign Policy’s Passport blog.
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