Bashar al-Assad: after Idlib is the president's luck running out?

Defying defeat in Lebanon, a mooted arms deal and the Arab spring, Assad has seemed the Middle East’s great survivor. But what next as the world looks on?Bashar al-Assad has become known as the Middle East’s great survivor since taking power in 2000. But in launching a chemical weapons attack in Idlib province this week, has the pariah president of Syria finally pushed his luck too far?Assad denies responsibility for the Idlib atrocity, just as he denied responsibility for a notoriou