Published: Jul 19, 2020, 06:41 IST | Updated: Jul 19, 2020, 06:41 IST
Bashar al-Assad has completed 20 years as the president of Syria but, Syria today is a far cry from the vision that he had projected in July 2000. In 20 years the fate of a diverse, culturally-rich nation changed to the definitive war-torn hellscape that it is today.