Could a gas supply deal put Assad on the road to redemption?
Oct 01, 2021
3 minutes
By Martin Chulov QAMISHLI
For almost a decade he was a pariah who struggled to get a meeting abroad or to assert himself on his visitors. Bashar al-Assad presided over a broken state whose few friends demanded a humiliating price for their protection, and weren’t afraid to show it.
During regular trips to Syria, Vladimir Putin arranged meetings at Russian bases, forcing Assad to trail behind him at functions. Iran too readily imposed its
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