The UK is wielding considerable influence in post-Assad Syria, through a combination of political connections, charity ...

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Britain has lined up a Mandarin-speaking diplomat whose father was a governor of Hong Kong as the next ambassador to China, ...

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For half a century, Lebanon lived under the long rule of the two Assads in Syria. Damascus held Lebanon’s fate in its hands, ...