Assad Is a Winner as Russia Is Seen Making New Offer at UN

Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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By Kambiz Foroohar

September 25, 2015 at 5:00 AM UTC

Updated on

September 25, 2015 at 7:22 AM UTC

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Bashar al-Assad is not going anywhere.

Four years after President Barack Obama’s August 2011 ultimatum that the Syrian president must go, world leaders descending on New York for the United Nations General Assembly are closer to agreeing that Assad can stay.