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Members of the Druze community hold a poster depicting Syria’s President Bashar A-Assad during a rally in the Druze village of Majdal Shams on the Golan Heights, Syria, in this February 14, 2012 file photo. (Reuters//Baz Ratner)


Opinion: Syria goes back to old colonial games

Opinion: Syria goes back to old colonial games

by | Nov 21, 2014 | Opinion

It was, perhaps, sometime last year that whoever runs the Assad regime in Damascus discovered a colonial-era manual left by the French on how to hang on to power in Syria. Reflecting the aggressive policy of President Alexandre Millerand, the manual recommends a...