Isaac Chotiner interviews Fawaz A. Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, about the rebel groups gaining ground against the Syrian Army.
Last week’s attacks are the latest wave of resistance to Assad’s despotic rule, a civil war that began in 2011 and quickly descended into a proxy war, eventually leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of refugees. Russia and Iran helped stabilize the regime even as it used chemical weapons against its people. The region’s Sunni autocracies, meanwhile, supported various rebel groups.
the most infamous and violent of the rebel groups, was among the latter, and claimed significant territory in Iraq and Syria. Then, in 2019, a United States-led coalition attacked and largely eliminated ISIS in Syria, and it appeared that Assad had decisively won the war. But now, with Assad’s allies engaged in Ukraine and in Lebanon, the rebel groups have been able to make their boldest and most successful military moves in years, surprising both the Syrian leadership and the rest of the world.
and focussed mainly on ISIS because it represented a greater threat to American interests and to its allies in the region, and also because of the relationship between Turkey and Al Nusra Front and then H.T.S. Turkey and Qatar helped and provided financial support, and probably military arms, to H.T.S. My sense is that the intelligence coördination between the United States and the Turkish and the Qatari governments probably mattered as well.
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