After holding out for 13 years, Syria’s Bashar al Assad’s government fell to al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, with the capture of Damascus and subsequent exile of Assad. It is a culmination of years of Western machinations for the country that now sees a terrorist figure with a $10 million bounty paraded by Western media as some young Fidel Castro.
What does all this have to Africa, Libya and AES?
Should African states be weary of Russia following the fallout on Syria?
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