Why ISIS gains in Iraq are reshaping Syria's regime's war strategy
Syria's regime has relied on Shiite fighters to claw back territory from rebels. A draw down of Iraqi Shiites to defend the homeland from ISIS militants puts more strain on Hezbollah./ With Islamic militants at the vanguard of what appears to be a general Sunni uprising against Baghdad’s Shiite-dominated government, the conflicts in Syria and Iraq are beginning to merge under the strains of sectarian and ethnic competition./ The shockwaves are already reverberating in Syria’s civil war and changing the calculus of both the regime of ...
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