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Can Syria avoid another slide into autocracy?
The brutal regime of Bashar al Assad fell over the weekend with dizzying speed. Syrians within the country and around the world burst into celebration.
Now, the rebel group Hay’at Tahrir al Sham, or HTS has to govern. They are designated a terrorist organization by the US.
And some worry that HTS could slide into its own kind of autocratic regime.
That fear is not unfounded. Across the Middle East and North Africa, many revolutions have overthrown autocrats, only for those countries to descend back into chaos or a more oppressive rule.
The Syrian revolution began amid a wave of uprisings in the region that led to new, undemocratic regimes. Can Syria avoid a similar fate today?
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