Syrian President Bashar al-Assad took part in Eid al-Adha prayers in the city of Aleppo for the first time since the country’s uprising began. The regime’s leader performed the Islamic prayer in the Abdullah bin Abbas Mosque alongside the country’s former mufti, Ahmed Badr al-Din Hassoun, in addition to a number of clerics. The dictator visited the heavily damaged Aleppo province on Friday for the first time in almost 11 years, after fierce fighting saw the regime claim victory over Aleppo city in 2016, with the backing of Russia. “What happened in this war is just a deviation in the course of…