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Nicholas Blanford has been a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor since 2002. He has lived in Beirut since 1994 and is author of Killing Mr Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and its Impact on the Middle East (2006) and Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollah’s Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel (2011).
Summary
As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gazes across Damascus from his palace on Mount Qasioun, he can be grateful to his Russian, Iranian, and Hezbollah allies that he is still in a position to enjoy such a view.
