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HTS: Can these Islamists truly unify a post-Assad Syria?

This author hopes a state-centered ideological political agenda — as opposed to a violent global jihadist one — can succeed after years of dictatorship.

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Middle East

The fall of Assad is a defeat for Russia — and no 'win' for the US

We should note that for every bad outcome for Moscow here, Washington faces an equally unstable path, too

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QiOSK

US forces still fighting inside Syria amid power vacuum

Critics say there is no better time than now to extricate American troops from the country

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Middle East

Turkey and Israel are reaping rewards from the chaos in Syria

The losers? The resistance axis: Assad, Tehran and Hezbollah.

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Rebels seize on Assad weakness, attack Aleppo

Iran, Russia, nor Hezbollah are in any position to help prevent the return of Civil War

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Middle East

Is Turkey's big break with Israel for real?

Depends on who you ask, but there is a history here that may be difficult to escape