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Iranian Mohammad Javad Zarif (C-R) sits next to the EU’s Catherine Ashton (C-L), during their meeting in the framework of negotiations on the Iranian nuclear file in Muscat, Oman, on November 11, 2014.


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Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad speaks during an interview with Russian state television RU24 in Damascus, Syria in this September 12, 2013 handout photo by Syria’s national news agency SANA. (Reuters/SANA/Handout Via Reuters)


Opinion: Assad’s Old Tricks

Opinion: Assad’s Old Tricks

Syria’s state-owned news agency, SANA, recently quoted Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad as saying that the ceasefire proposal by the UN’s special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, was “worth studying.” But it would be wrong to believe that this statement represents...