If Assad is out, who will lead Syria?

In Syria’s six years of bloody civil war, not a single rebel leader has emerged as the face of a movement against President Bashar al-Assad.
Nikki Haley, centre, United States permanent representative to the UN, shows images of Syrians alleged to have been victims of a chemical weapons attack in southern Idlib, Syria, earlier this month.
OTTAWA—The United States has made it clear that it believes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons to gas civilians. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration needs to remain adamant about that point because it has already violated international law by launching a punitive mis...

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