The Gathering Storm in Syria

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

TL/DR: Like the Balkans, only longer, bigger, and with oil.

Well it looks like your prediction is starting to come true.

Beirut: More than two years into Syria’s civil war, the once highly-centralised authoritarian state has effectively split into three distinct parts, each boasting its own flags, security agencies and judicial system.

In each area, religious, ideological and turf power struggles are under way and battle lines tend to ebb and flow, making it impossible to predict exactly what Syria could look like once the combatants lay down their arms.

But the longer the bloody conflict drags on, analysts says, the more difficult it will be to piece together a coherent Syrian state from the wreckage. “There is no doubt that as a distinct single entity, Syria has ceased to exist,” said

http://gulfnews.com/news/region/syri...ions-1.1219353

To show how this looks on a map (red is Assad, Green is rebel, Yellow is Kurd):