Over the weekend some amazing things happened under the radar in Syria.
Turkish-backed Islamic rebels, who have been causing the Assad regime no end of heartburn for years now (since freedom protests in 2011, basically), decided to goose their game and went rolling through the countryside. Bashar al-Assad’s forces – with the reported assistance of the Russians and Iranians – are doing what they can to hold on, but for some reason, this time, the rebels seem to have the wind at their back.
…The balance in the stalemate started changing last week, when the Islamist-led rebel alliance in the northwest launched its offensive. Over the weekend, HTS and allied factions took control of Aleppo city for the first time since the civil war started more than a decade ago, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitoring group’s director Rami Abdel…
