Two of the most influential actors in Syria -- Turkey and the Syrian regime -- have stopped fighting purely through proxies, and instead taken to directly attacking each other | Analysis by npwcnn
But over the past week, a starker evolution has occurred, one that's been lost amid fatigue around the seemingly endless violence. Two of the most influential actors there -- Turkey and the Syrian regime -- have stopped fighting purely through proxies, and instead taken to directly attacking each other.It is a seismic development: Turkish troops being repeatedly killed by Syrian forces, and then Ankara exacting a revenge toll on Bashar al-Assad's men.
"Lister said the humanitarian crisis was"totally unprecedented and will definitely only get worse," and added that the possibility Turkey would have to take in some of the displaced meant that an onward traffic of refugees to Europe couldn't be excluded.For those inside, living for years in something close to hell, even the apocalyptic has an upside.
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