The state of the civil war.

A quagmire for the Russians.

But the UN and the WHO remain complicit in Assad’s war crimes.

Divided, impoverished, and dominated by competing external powers.

Thanks to Russia, only loyalists can get humanitarian aid.

Putin may be willing to allow Bashar al-Assad to reign over a failed state.

And other security consequences for the Jewish state.

The prime minister-designate is poised to invite them into his coalition.

Damascus can’t hold the territory it has taken.

As Arab rulers and their peoples come to see that Islamism and Iran are the real threats.

Latakia.

It never secured for its population either freedom or prosperity.

And why some Syrian Christians support Assad.

Syria needs money its allies don’t have.