Whatever Syria's President has done, it now looks like he's going nowhere. Time perhaps to re-set for those who called Bashar al Assad a Monster. Suddenly he's a Monster with whom it might be sensible to do business.

At the Roundtable was Alexey Khlebnikov, Middle East and North Africa Expert at Russian Affairs Council; Razan Saffour, Syria Researcher at the TRT WORLD Research Centre; Dr Ian Black, Author, Journalist and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE; and Nasim Ahmed, Analyst from the Middle East Monitor.

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