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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaks at the Opera House in Damascus Sunday.

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International | Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave a defiant speech on Sunday—his first public address in six months—defending his harsh crackdown that has brought on nearly two years of civil war. Assad offered a “peace…

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