News that Syrian rebels have, at least temporarily, broken the siege of Aleppo is good. Despite the best efforts of Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime to terrorize the city into submission, some 300,000 Syrians will be spared, for the time-being, from the onset of disease and starvation at the hands of a government still permitted to represent Syria in the United Nations.
The bad news is that Syrian nationalist defenders of Aleppo had no choice but to make common cause with the Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate whose recent name-change and disassociation from the parent organization are about as …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
