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Syria's rebel leader courted the world. Now his forces stand accused of a massacre
Only last week, Ahmed al-Sharaa was in Cairo helping to devise a viable alternative to Donald Trump’s vision for Gaza.
Dressed in a smart Western suit, Syria’s interim president was welcomed as an equal by some of the most important political leaders of the Arab world.
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Those hopes now teeter on the edge of ruin, given the bloodletting of minorities in the country’s Mediterranean west coast since Thursday.
Sharaa’s government now stands accused of massacring members of minority groups – Alawites, Christians and Druze – in response to a series of ambushes by gunmen apparently loyal to the former regime of Bashar al-Assad.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/syria-rebel-leader-courted-world-205546247.html