Twelve years ago, the people of Syria rose up against the regime of Bashar al-Assad as the Arab Spring uprisings swept the Middle East. Assad proceeded to kill, bomb, starve, poison and brutalize his people, and does still. He became an international pariah. Now, he is being welcomed back into the Arab League, a group that suspended Syria from its ranks in 2011. Stephanie Sy reports.

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