Rebels Capture Aleppo, Threaten More

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Historian Ibn Khaldun observed that, in a landscape of contending tribes, history is shaped by the use of force more than any other factor

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A surprise rebel offensive has managed to capture Aleppo , Syria ’s second -largest city, and now threatens to seize more territory.

This swift Turkish -backed blitzkrieg exposed the Ba’athist regime of Bashar al-Assad to its most serious challenge since the outbreak of the Syrian revolt more than a decade ago .

Syria was a terrible casualty of President Obama ’s grand strategy for the Middle East , writes Peter Bergen .

Syria and Iran burnished their anti-Zionist and anti-American reputations in the region by driving a wedge between U.S. and its Arab allies and their peoples, he says.

The key Arab regime in the Iranian resistance bloc’ now appeared to be the strong horse in the struggle for mastery of the Fertile Crescent .

Since the uprising against Assad began, he has answered foreign and domestic critics with the self-satisfied assurances that coercion and repression are the currency of stability.

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