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SYRIA - NOVEMBER 28: Rifaat al Assad back to Damascus after exile, Damascus, Syria On November 28, 1984 - Left to right: Hafaz el Assad, Abdel Halim Khaddam, and Rifaat al Assad. (Photo by Daniel SIMON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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