Syrian regime is cohesive, but increasingly vulnerable
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- The inner circle
- Rami Makhlouf
- Colonel Hafez Makhlouf
- Munzir al-Assad
- Clan and community
- Army, intelligence and security forces
- Mohammad Nasif Kheir Bek
- General Abdul Fatah Qudsiya
- Lieutenant-General Ali Mamluk
- Regime strategy
- Regime cohesion
- Regime vulnerabilities
- Narrowing support base
- Business disaffection
- Financial and economic pressures
- Poverty and unemployment
- Weakened patronage networks
- Sanctions
- Military exhaustion
- Loss of Russian support
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.jpg "Supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri)")