Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has announced a “general amnesty” for crimes committed before June 9th<br /><br /> State television made the announcement but It was not immediately clear who would be included,<br /><br /> It will be the fifth such amnesty since the civil war broke out more than three years ago.<br /><br /> It comes a week after Assad secured a landslide victory in an election that was condemned as a sham by his opponents as well as the European Union
