How Global Conflicts Helped Reignite Syria’s Civil War

[Carlotta Gall, Nikolay Nikolov and James Surdam]

Rebels launched sweeping assaults against the forces of President Bashar al-Assad in northwestern Syria, taking control of large portions of territory, including much of the city of Aleppo. Carlotta Gall, a senior correspondent for The New York Times, explains how events beyond Syria’s borders lit the fuse for renewed fighting.

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