A bashful Bashar might blush at this. Jihadi rebels invading President Bashar al-Assad’s palace in Aleppo last week came across a photo of the Syrian leader as a young man, sporting nothing but ...

Photo: Jeff Chiu/AP/John Marshall Mantel/Zuma Wire The weekend collapse at long last of the Assad family regime in Syria is no cause for mourning unless you are the leaders of Russia and Iran.