Despite a Series of Military Victories, the Syrian Regime May Be Weaker Than Ever
Divided, impoverished, and dominated by competing external powers.
June 15, 2020
Despite a Series of Military Victories, the Syrian Regime May Be Weaker Than Ever
Divided, impoverished, and dominated by competing external powers.
By the end of 2018, Bashar al-Assad and his allies had eliminated the major rebel strongholds in southern Syria, and the U.S. was preparing to abandon the northeast. In February, Assad’s forces began a largely successful assault on the last pocket of resistance in the country’s northwest. Yet despite these developments, Jonathan Spyer writes, the regime is by no means in a position to declare victory:
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