Syria Puts On Mass Rally in Support of Assad - by Anne Barnard

 Many thousands of Syrians gathered in a central square in Damascus on a blustery Thursday morning, waving Syrian flags and pictures of President Bashar al-Assad in what the government billed as a “Global March for Syria” and against the year-old uprising that it portrays as led by terrorists and foreigners.

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