A Weak Assad Benefits Turkey—and Is a Headache for Trump

Future Security Program Fellow Jeremy Hodge wrote for Foreign Policy on the lessons of rebel advances in Syria.

After nearly five years of being written off as a frozen conflict, a new and unprecedented chapter was written over the weekend in Syria’s 13-year civil war. On Wednesday, rebels in the north of the country launched a lightning ground offensive against regime forces and managed, within 72 hours, to take over the major metropolis of Aleppo.

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