Syria 2018

A Dawn editorial remarks that there has been fighting on three fronts in Syria: the Syrian armed forces are attempting to capture one of the last rebel strongholds, Turkey is besieging Syrian Kurds, and Israel and Syria exchanged hostilities after an Iranian drone entered Israel. I don't know what it adds up to, but my feeling is that increasingly, the Middle East is Russia's problem - that a slow American retreat in the region connects Obama and Trump, perhaps motivated by the success of fracking within America.