Syria's president Bashar al-Assad speaks during his meeting with the heads and members of public organizations and professional associations in Damascus, Syria, in this handout released by Syria's national news agency SANA on July 26, 2015. REUTERS/SANA/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS
While the desperate flight of Syrians from their country's war was dominating news bulletins this summer, yet another diplomatic push to end the four-year-old conflict was quietly running into the sand.
That largely unnoticed failure has reinforced the view amongst Syria experts that there is no solution in sight, with one of the biggest obstacles a seemingly unbridgeable international divide over President Bashar al-Assad's future.
As a consequence, Syria looks set for ever greater fragmentation into a patchwork of territories, one of them the diminishing Damascus-based state where Assad appears confident of survival with backing from his Russian and Iranian allies.
WNU Editor: Diplomacy never had a chance in Syria .... especially now. All sides have become radicalised, and I am one of those who now sees this conflict continuing even longer than the Lebanese civil war (15 years).
4 comments:
I wonder if anything will be left after 15 years...
Why does the International community have the right to determine who should be running a country? The U.S. nor any other country has the right to decide who will run Syria. This is the job of the Syrian people and the U.S. and other countries need to stay out of it.
if that's the case then so should Iran, Russia & China
Why does the International community have the right to determine who should be running a country?
You're sking that question about three years and nearly a million casualties too late, william.
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