Syria at War : Dissecting the Strategic Landscape – Jerusalem Studio

The basic facts about Syria are as simple as the situation there is not. Syria borders Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel. It is of major strategic importance for Russia. For the last 54 years the Syrian regime was held by the Assad family, but since 2011 the country has been torn apart by civil war, rebel groups of various affiliations and competing outside forces. Against this backdrop, the rapid collapse of Assad’s army – once the Northeast front was suddenly awakened last week in and around Aleppo – has once again showed the fragility of the Damascus regime and the impacts on other pieces in the regional puzzle, from Ankara to Beirut, and from Jerusalem to Tehran to Moscow.