As Aleppo falls, diplomats foresee Iran and ISIS rise
Aleppo’s fall will not end the brutal Syrian war, but now diplomats are haggling over “which direction it falls,” according to a Western diplomat. That is, will it be a bloodbath? Or can Secretary of State John Kerry negotiate a pathway out for the civilians trapped alongside the besieged U.S.-backed rebels in the eastern portion of the city? And could there be a way to call the surrender of that city something other than “defeat” for the rebels?/ “We are witnessing talks that are trying to manage Syrian and Russian victory,” a European ...
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