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Founder and CEO of the Shaikh Group; former director of the Brookings Doha Center and fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy
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Shalman Shaikh
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Syria's Civil War Goes Multi-national What started as an uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has become more complicated than ever. Russia and the US are dropping bombs on the same country, and although both are opposed to ISIS, they are on different sides of the civil war. At the same time, Iraq is inviting Russia to join the US by dropping bombs there.
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