A boy rides on a bicycle in the town of Kafr Batna, in eastern Ghouta, Syria on September 5, 2018.Omar Sanadiki / Reuters
Hassan Hassan, The Atlantic: ISIS Is Poised to Make a Comeback in Syria
Religious extremists will try to inherit the energy of the all-but-defeated rebellion, just as they did in Iraq after the surge.
On the surface, the Syrian civil war appears to be nearing its final stage. Bashar al-Assad's regime and its Russian and Iranian backers won the battle that mattered the most for them in July, when they drove the moderate rebels out of their last bastion in the southern Syrian city of Deraa. With that military victory, any hopes of a moderate takeover must be laid to rest. But while the rebels have been defeated, their grievances remain. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, mostly by government and government-allied forces; millions have been displaced; whole towns have been bombed out of existence. Now the situation is poised to worsen as the regime is readying its forces to attack Idlib, home to Turkish-backed rebels, jihadis, and countless civilians.
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WNU Editor: Currently there is not much that the U.S. can do to alter the dynamics of a possible ISIS re-emergence in Syria. The U.S. does not have the man power and resources nor the political will to become fully engaged in Syria .... and with good reasons. This is a Syria-Russia-Iran-Hezbollah war against a predominantly Sunni based insurgency, and if ISIS returns, it will be there problem.
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