The idea that the Assad regime will respond to normalization with concessions of its own flies in the face of everything we know about how the Assads have ruled Syria for more than 50 years, @SHeydemann writes. brook.gs/3GyF5gM
Too much international silence on the situation in Deraa, Syria, where there are many reports the Assad regime aims to forcibly displace thousands of people who were under the protection of the Russians’ so-called reconciliation agreements. Forcible displacement is a war crime.