Syrian soccer: Succeeding against the odds (JMD on Aljazeera America)

Oct 09, 2015

∙ Paid

Despite civil war, Syria’s tightly-controlled national team remains on course to qualify for its first ever World Cup

October 9, 2015 10:16AM ET

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s political fortunes are looking up on more than one battlefield. Even as Russian military intervention …

Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of James M. Dorsey.