How to Defeat Authoritarianism Bashar al-Assad's Syria

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Sep 28, 202600:54:08Society & Culture

In 2000, Bashar al-Assad became president of Syria, also known as the authoritarian "Kingdom of Fear" that his father Hafez al-Assad had created three decades earlier. The younger Assad continued and intensified the use...

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