With Assad under renewed pressure and his army rapidly losing control, Newsweek put the question to experts.
Just when it seemed he had consolidated his position as Syrian president after the Arab Spring uprising and Islamic State land grabs, Bashar al-Assad's future hangs in the balance after a stunning advance by anti-regime forces, who seized control of key cities.
Burdette Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, The American University of ParisThe Russians, who had hoped to strike a comprehensive deal with the Trump administration to reconcile the Kurdish forces with Assad and secure an extension of their territorial control in Syria in exchange for influence over the Syrian-Lebanese border and Hezbollah's activities there, today find themselves constrained by limited resources amid the ongoing upheaval.
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