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Rebranding a leader, rebuilding a country fuel hope in Damascus

Rebranding a leader, rebuilding a country fuel hope in Damascus

Sanctions off. Embassies sidelined. Private money in. That's the Trump administration's new playbook for Syria -- and it's nothing like the U.S. foreign policy that came before.

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