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  • Assessing the State of the Syrian Army as ISIS Advances

    08/03/2014 5:06:23 AM PDT · by Citizen Zed · 7 replies
    abc news ^ | 8-3-2014 | KAREN LEIGH, Syria Deeply
    We asked Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, and Aram Nerguizian, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to weigh in on the state of the Syrian army and how it can respond to the challenge from ISIS. Syria Deeply: What is the state of the Syrian army? Joshua Landis: In Damascus, ISIS has gone to war with the Islamic Front in the Ghouta area and has been squeezed out of Ghouta, and is now trying to open a new front in Qalamoun, the range of mountains near...