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Foreign Policy: Too Big to Fall
Aleppo was the Syrian rebels’ first big prize. If Assad retakes it, is the war as good as over?
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Hassan Hassan is deputy opinion editor at The National, an English daily based in the United Arab Emirates.
Follow via RSSAleppo was the Syrian rebels’ first big prize. If Assad retakes it, is the war as good as over?
In The National, Hassan Hassan says that Syria’s rebel fighters, despite rumors to the contrary, are gaining steady ground.
The National’s Hassan Hassan on what he perceives as the group’s decline going into the this year of conflict.
One of the mistakes analysts of the Syrian conflict often make is to assess rebel groups exclusively based on the slogans these organisations use. Many observers already recognise that hard-line Islamist rhetoric is more often than not used to attract funding.
The situation inside Syria has just gotten a lot more complex.
If the United States wants to move against jihadists in Syria, there has never been a better time. Tensions between moderate rebel groups and extremist forces are coming to a head across the country.
This post originally appeared at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
The following post first appeared on Hassan Hassan’s site.
This post first appeared at hhassan.com.
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