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{{cite news}}: |title= ไม่มีหรือว่างเปล่า (help){{cite journal}}: Cite journal ต้องการ |journal= (help)Assad was still in charge but he was utterly dependent on a diverse and toxic mix of volunteer warriors and `popular` militias, some of them manned by criminals. Not all of them were Syrian. A whole Shiite counter-jihad had formed – with fighters coming from Lebanon, Bahrain, even Afghanistan – under the supervision of Iran, Assad's patron.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (ลิงก์)The regime's recent setbacks in Idlib and the south are due in part to Assad's regional enemies – including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and Jordan – agreeing on the need to unite rebel factions to oust Assad, according to analysts and regional diplomats.
{{cite news}}: |title= ไม่มีหรือว่างเปล่า (help){{cite journal}}: Cite journal ต้องการ |journal= (help)But not all saw it the same way, especially when it came to the fighting against the SRF and Harakat Hazm. One FSA commander exclaimed to this author that "Jamal Maarouf was a criminal and his group was unpopular," while another such leader told this author in February 2015 that "Hazm's destruction cannot come soon enough, they have done nothing but cause trouble in Aleppo." [...] Having spoken extensively with leading commanders from across the Syrian spectrum in recent weeks, it is clear this [Army of Conquest] cooperation has at least partly been motivated by a desire to ensure victories in Idlib do not become strategic gains for al Qaeda.
Syria has become a proxy war between the US and Russia
The Gulf Arab faction, especially Saudi Arabia, has been engaged in a proxy war of regional influence with Iran
Over the past ten years, civilians have borne the brunt of the conflict, with an estimated 306,887 direct civilian deaths occurring.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal ต้องการ |journal= (help){{cite news}}: |title= ไม่มีหรือว่างเปล่า (help)Syria has become a proxy war between the US and Russia
The Gulf Arab faction, especially Saudi Arabia, has been engaged in a proxy war of regional influence with Iran
The Islamic State launched two attacks in northern Syria on June 25 [...] The second attack was directed against the parts of al-Hasaka city still occupied by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al Assad and Kurds in the northern part of town. The mainstream media has largely focused on the Kobanî attack, but the al-Hasaka operation in the northeast is more important by far.
{{cite news}}: |title= ไม่มีหรือว่างเปล่า (help)Meanwhile, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, attacked west from Palmyra, reached the town of Hassia on the main road north from Damascus to Homs and the coast.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal ต้องการ |journal= (help)The fielding of a TOW system would not necessarily provide al-Nusra with a capability it didn't already have. Similar weapons systems such as the Chinese HJ-8, French Milan and the Russian Spigot have all been seen in operation in Syria.
Over the past ten years, civilians have borne the brunt of the conflict, with an estimated 306,887 direct civilian deaths occurring.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal ต้องการ |journal= (help){{cite journal}}: Cite journal ต้องการ |journal= (help){{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (ลิงก์)However in the north, the main rebel stronghold, government troops have been chipping away slowly over the past weeks at rebel gains around the city of Aleppo, the country's main commercial hub.