BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's president heaped scorn on British politicians for allowing the vote on leaving the European Union, saying lawmakers who had criticised his handling of the civil war had shown themselves to be "disconnected from reality".
President Bashar al-Assad has stayed in power through Syria's five-year war, in the face of calls for his departure from Western powers including Britain, and an array of armed groups fighting to depose him, from Western-backed opposition forces to Islamic State.
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