Assad's Speech and the Syrian Political Solution - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Sami Moubayed

Jan 14, 2013

Men watch a television broadcast of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaking from the capital's Opera House, inside a room in the city of Azaz in north Aleppo January 6, 2013. REUTERS/Abdalghne Karoof (SYRIA - Tags: CONFLICT) — Men watch a television broadcast of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaking from the capital's Opera House, inside a room in the city of Azaz in north Aleppo, Syria, Jan. 6, 2013. — REUTERS/Abdalghne Karoof

U.N.-Arab League peace mediator Lakhdar Brahimi (L) of Algeria and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a joint news conference in Moscow December 29, 2012. The international mediator seeking to end the 21-month-old conflict in Syria met Russia's foreign minister in Moscow on Saturday after talks in Damascus but expectations of progress toward a negotiated solution were low. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS)

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