Author: Rasha Elass
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Assad Was Disengaging From Iran, but His Next Steps Are Unclear
No one expected the swift rebel takeover of Aleppo when I was visiting Damascus last month, though almost everyone I met there seemed to think that “something was cooking.” And during my short sojourn, I felt that, too. For starters, nothing about life in Damascus has felt coherent or sustainable since relative quiet befell the…