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Powder keg Syria: A country at a crossroads

(Bild: APA/AFP/Abdulaziz KETAZ)

The "forgotten war" in Syria has flared up again! Jihadists are taking one town after another. Dictator Bashar al-Assad's allies - Russia, Iran, Hezbollah - can only help to a limited extent. Syria is at a turning point.

Over half a million people are dead. More than seven million people have been displaced. That is the sad result of the Syrian civil war, which began in 2011 after the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad violently suppressed pro-democracy demonstrators. Aleppo was an important stronghold of the opposition to the dictator until 2016, when a Russian airstrike campaign recaptured the city for the Assad regime.