READINGS

http://syrianobserver.com/EN/Features/32954
Fifth Corps Officer to Assad: Our Forces Are Drained and the Russians Humiliate Us

https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2017/07/06/fractures-emerge-in-turkeys-alliances-in-northern-syria

http://www.mei.edu/content/article/al-qaeda-affiliate-and-ahrar-al-sham-compete-control-idlib
Al-Qaeda Affiliate and Ahrar al-Sham Compete for Control in Idlib

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/opinion/sunday/iran-afghanistan-refugees-assad-syria.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
How Iran Recruited Afghan Refugees to Fight Assad’s War

http://aranews.net/2017/06/former-american-envoy-syria-says-us-wont-defend-kurds-assad-analysts-disagree/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/monitoring-group-turkey-bolsters-its-troops-in-north-syria/2017/06/21/3b8fc7be-5697-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html?utm_term=.073e39e2cec4

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/the-us-enters-a-new-phase-in-syria/531177/?utm_source=twb

http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-us-is-destroying-raqqa-in-order-to-save-it-and-civilians-be-damned

https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2017/06/15/long-read-israels-quiet-campaign-to-gain-a-foothold-in-southern-syria

http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-us-is-destroying-raqqa-in-order-to-save-it-and-civilians-be-damned