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January 21, 2018

Syria. The territories under direct ISIS control are reduced to a bare minimum. But now, with the ISIS challenge defeated, the Damascus government and Turkey are focusing on other objectives. Damascus is attacking the rebel enclave of Idlib, while Turkey is bombing and attacking the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, in open defiance of American interests (allies of the Kurdish YPG), the Russians (who have a battalion in Afrin), and Syrian interests (who are suffering from a Turkish invasion of their territory and are threatening to shoot down Turkish warplanes).