On GPS: Syria, six months after the fall of Assad
It has been six months since Syria broke free from 53 years of repressive rule. Now a former al Qaeda militant, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, is running the country. Fareed talks with David Miliband, the former British foreign secretary and current head of the International Rescue Committee, about his recent trip to Syria, where he met with Al-Sharaa.
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