Syria Conflict: No End to Interminable War in Sight
Syria Conflict: No End to Interminable War in Sight by Jeremy Bowen, BBC
… The war has not been contained, and continues to get worse, and more complicated. Staffan de Mistura, the UN envoy for Syria, has the toughest diplomatic job in the world.
The most powerful rebel groups taking on the Assad regime have ideologies that range from a kind of religious nationalism, to the jihadists of Islamic State who are hacking off parts of Syria and Iraq to make a new kind of political entity.
The rebel groups often fight each other. They reconstitute coalitions and organisations frequently. The rebels approved and funded by the West are not big players.
What makes things really complicated is that big regional and world powers have also intervened on either side in the war…
