Russia, Iran lose this hand: Assad is gone

After 14 years of civil war, the Arab Spring has taken its last scalp. And the West is celebrating a Jihadi? takeover - its 1989 all over again.

Bashar al-Assad, the original nepo baby dictator, has seen his control over Syria crumble in less than 3 weeks. Neither Assad's Russian or Iranian allies, nor his many enemies in the west saw it coming. How did a handful of groups, just 6 years ago labelled Islamic terrorists, triumph in Syria's long-running civil war?

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