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AFP – Syrian foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdisi, a well-known advocate for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, has resigned and is headed for London, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. “Makdisi was pressured by people inside the presidential palace, but not the president himself.