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Comment: A new coalition of opposition forces backed by regional powers launched an offensive that forced the regime to retreat from Idlib. Can this success be repeated?
Comment: Russia's intervention in Syria is framed by its president as something that protects both Russian and Western interests. But the assumptions behind this are false, writes Mark Katz.
Comment: Unless the Assad regime's murderous tyranny is halted, the refugee crisis facing Europe will continue to worsen.
Comment: The wider world knows by now that the Assad regime cannot be induced to limit its atrocities by placation or be persuaded by consensus, writes James Snell.
In a blur of frontlines where all guns seem trained at all others, there are no good choices for the US as the administration finds itself confounded by reality
Comment: You cannot reduce the rise of IS to Assad’s malevolent politics. You cannot ignore it either, writes Ibrahim Halawi
Comment: With an array of armed groups fighting to topple IS in Raqqa, the risk of an ensuing security vacuum bodes ominously, writes James Denselow
Comment: In Chomsky's hierarchy of concerns, it seems a westerner's right to deny genocide is more sacrosanct than a Syrian's right to life and liberty, writes Muhammad Idrees Ahmad.
Comment: The Middle East is in danger of becoming the Wild West if 'Sheriff' Trump doesn't resist the temptation to send in bands of US special forces, writes Robert Springborg
Comment: Political commentator Ahmet Insel reflects on July's aborted coup against Erdogan’s government, and the escalating tensions behind Turkey's movements in Syria.