The reunification of Syria

President Bashar al-Assad will probably one day rule once again over a united Syria. That is a deeply discouraging prospect, but it is probably the least bad option that remains.

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s army, with Russian and Iranian support, will have to suppress both Islamic State and the former Nusra Front, and the Turks will have to subjugate the Syrian Kurds, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 9, 2017

LONDON, ENGLAND—So far, the end-game in Syria has played out in an entirely predictable way. All of Aleppo is back in the Syrian government’s hands, that decisive victory for President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian backers has been followed by a ceasefire, and the Russians are now organizing a...

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