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Syria is Russia’s southern flank – and it is fast crumbling

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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) may be inadvertently coming to the aid of the West and more importantly, Ukraine by disrupting Putin ’s southern flank.

The Islamist group shunned Al Qaeda and Isis in 2016 and, unlike those jihadists, it appears to be only interested in ousting Assad from power.

The Russian “playbook” used in Ukraine was developed in Syria , and I saw at first -hand how Assad and Putin attacked hospitals, destroyed the power infrastructure and razed most of Idlib province to the ground.