The Syrian jihadist leader’s growing efforts to garner legitimacy and build up local institutions can only go so far amid the group’s continued terrorist sympathies and minority repression.
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Latest Assad regime shelling of opposition-held NW Syria kills 3 people and wounds more than 20, with attacks on police station and food and fuel supplies.