The pundits were wrong about Assad and the Islamic State. As usual, they're not willing to admit it

The rollback of Islamic State must come as a shock to those who spent years insisting that such progress would never happen without toppling the regime of Bashar Assad. By Max Abahms, John Glaser.
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