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The Russia-Iran-Assad ‘axis of the vulnerable’ is cracking in Syria

By Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin

The so-called “axis of the vulnerable” is breaking in Syria. Starting in 2016, Russia and Iran, propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad, needed more than a year of bombing, ground assaults and siege to break the rebel opposition in the east of Syria’s largest city, Aleppo.

Now, in 2024, the rebels needed less than four days to

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