IntelBrief: Assad Uses Earthquake to Advance Normalization - The Soufan Center
Syrian President Bashar Al Assad immediately sought to exploit the humanitarian catastrophe resulting from the earthquake that struck southeastern Türkiye and northwestern Syria in early February to break out of more than a decade of regional and global isolation pariah status in response to his regime’s use of brutality and military force to crush a popular uprising that began in 2011| The Soufan Center
