Topic: Syra

Emails Reveal the Friendly Westerners Who Sucked Up to Syria's Dictator

As the brutal regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad continues killing thousands of its own people, a new cache of leaked e-mails reveal who played nice with the Arab autocrat.

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