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3 posts tagged syria.
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Macron in Syria and the NATO summit gamble
Macron's visit to Damascus ahead of the NATO summit in Turkey signals Europe's attempt to lead a Syrian reintegration that Washington has so far resisted.
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Assad's torture chambers and the long arm of law
An Austrian conviction of a former Syrian intelligence chief, and the BBC's exposure of identifiable torturers living freely in Russia, test whether international justice is deterrence or theatre.
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Syria's new parliament and the limits of top-down legitimacy
Ahmed al-Sharaa's appointed assembly is an improvement on Assad's rubber-stamp legislature, but a parliament built on presidential fiat rather than genuine elections cannot anchor a durable democratic transition.