Good point...the fact is that Al Qaeda affiliates are the main opposition to the Syrian government after ISIS, and its impossible for anyone to tell them apart.
Trump better get a handle on his foreign policy, or he's headed for another war.
This whole thing is part of a big picture.
At the end of the Winter Olympics four years ago the pro-Russian government in Ukraine was toppled I think as revenge for their intervention in Syria.
Now another Winter Olympics is underway.
What’s next?
Russia moved some aircraft into Syria including two of their stealth aircraft in recent days.