Bashar al-Assad

The deal brokered by the Trump administration between Israel and Hamas raises hope not only for an end to the war in Gaza but for a broader transformation of the Middle East. And in some ways, that’s been happening already. Israel’s massive response in the two years since the October …

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An entire generation of Syrians has never known freedom and so when it swept over them, last Sunday, there was shock, then joy, and a desperate hope that it might last. Damascus is a city nearly 5,000 years old. But over this decade the war has seemed like the end …

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