Syria in 2016 (April-June)

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US policy in southern Syria is blundering into helping IS. And Russia is quite deliberately exacerbating this.

https://kyleorton1991.wordpress.com/...to-save-assad/

REALLY long read but worth it....

Russia Needs the Islamic State to Save Assad

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on June 20, 2016

This gent is simply epic. Epic.

I haven't seen any other summaries about Syria that would be even distantly as clear as his.