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Syria Summary - U.S. Moves To Cut Off The East - But For What?
• moonofalabama.orgThe army is recovering new ground in Hama governate and an intense bombing campaign is waged over Idelb governate which is held by al-Qaeda. As an analyst generally in favor of the opposition concedes:
Continued support for the northwest insurgency amounts to effectively subsidizing a jihadist safe haven in the Levant.
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The proxy war against the Syrian regime in the northwest, for the West, is lost.
The head of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, agrees. He tells his forces in Syria stop holding land and to revert to guerilla war:
Ayman al-Zawahri told the jihadis, who control Syria's northwestern Idlib province and other territory, to remain steadfast and change tactics in order to wage guerrilla war.