Crisis of Confidence Surfaces Between Damascus and de Mistura | Al Akhbar English
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However, the UN plan did not even see the light of day. Instead, it remained an “initiative project.” The battlefronts in Syria’s economic capital and its countryside prevent any discussion of halting the fighting.
The Syrian army and its allies seek to encircle the city and isolate it from its countryside, which has access to the Turkish border, and from the area controlled by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). On the other hand, the armed opposition is desperately trying to break this encirclement and open nearby battlefronts, such as al-Nusra Front’s latest attempt to enter the towns of Nubl and al-Zahraa in the city’s northern countryside.
