Last December, the former al Qaeda leader, Ahmed al-Shara, made history as he led a loose coalition of rebels into downtown Damascus. The Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, promptly fled in a helicopter. In January, al-Shara appointed himself the country’s new president. Lately, he’s been having earnest sit downs with David …
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