Former US Syria envoy: Assad more cohesive than opposition - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Barbara Slavin

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry confers with U.S. Ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford (R) as Kerry testifies at a U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Syria on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX137DD — US Secretary of State John Kerry confers with US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford (R) as Kerry testifies at a US House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Syria on in Washington, Sept. 4, 2013. — REUTERS/Jason Reed

Turkish protesters march with a burnt national flag as they shout slogans against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan during a demonstration against the Turkish government's policy on Syria, in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, near the Turkish-Syrian border, May 13, 2013. Syria's information minister has blamed Turkey's government for deadly car bombings near the Syrian border and branded Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan a "murderer", state-run Russian TV company RT reported on Monday. It said he repeated a d

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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (R) meets U.N.-Arab League peace envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi in Damascus October 21, 2012, in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency SANA. International mediator Brahimi, who is pressing for a temporary ceasefire in Syria's civil war, met Assad in Damascus on Sunday, state television said. REUTERS/Sana (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY POLITICS CONFLICT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE

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Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, speaks during an interview at the U.S embassy in Kabul September 14, 2011. A marathon siege in Kabul's diplomatic enclave ended on Tuesday with the death of the last two of a group of gunmen who had held off Western and Afghan security forces for nearly 20 hours, showering rockets on Western embassies in a dramatic show of insurgent strength. Crocker said around six or seven rockets had hit inside the embassy perimeter during the early hours of the attack, l

Former US diplomat warns of possible 'grave mistake' in Syria

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