Assad must be very disheartened that he is no longer in charge of the entire country as it appears to be split into parts.
Syria is disintegrating into fragmented parts under pressure of war
Al Assad is now focused on fortifying his most defensible stretch of territory
PUBLISHED: 18:17 JULY 25, 2015
BY ANNE BARNARD, NEW YORK TIMES
Beirut: Syria is falling apart, as warring groups carve it into de facto fiefs, and it is increasingly hard to see how its disintegration can be reversed.
Within the country, no single group can muster enough territory or popularity to win an increasingly fragmented war — or even to negotiate and enforce an eventual peace. From outside, regional and global powers tug at the country in a proxy fight for their own interests, but none of them have the influence or, apparently, the will to reunite Syria.
In the crucible of war, as the Middle East undergoes its broadest reshaping since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century, de facto spheres of influence and control are crystallising, even as official borders remain unchanged.
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Syria is disintegrating into fragmented parts under pressure of war
Al Assad is now focused on fortifying his most defensible stretch of territory
PUBLISHED: 18:17 JULY 25, 2015
BY ANNE BARNARD, NEW YORK TIMES
Beirut: Syria is falling apart, as warring groups carve it into de facto fiefs, and it is increasingly hard to see how its disintegration can be reversed.
Within the country, no single group can muster enough territory or popularity to win an increasingly fragmented war — or even to negotiate and enforce an eventual peace. From outside, regional and global powers tug at the country in a proxy fight for their own interests, but none of them have the influence or, apparently, the will to reunite Syria.
In the crucible of war, as the Middle East undergoes its broadest reshaping since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century, de facto spheres of influence and control are crystallising, even as official borders remain unchanged.
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