Syria's President Bashar al-Assad delivers a speech after being sworn in for a new seven-year term in Damascus July 16, 2014. See Also With the United States being sucked inexorably into an unavoidable and wider conflict with the self-styled "Islamic State" (IS; formerly ISIS) in Iraq, attention has quickly turned to the fact that the terrorist group's main redoubt is in northern Syria. Therefore, if there is to be a broad confrontation with the IS, as US military Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey warned last week, it would have to extend itself into Syria. And there is every indication that the United States is preparing contingencies for just that. Inevitably, the cry has gone up in...
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