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    As Alliances Shift, Syria’s Tangle of Wars Grows More Dangerous

    As multiple actors raise the stakes, the potential has grown for a disastrous miscalculation

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    DUBAI—Here’s what happened in Syria over the past week or so. Try to make out who’s whose friend—and who’s whose foe.

    The Russian-backed Syrian regime gave free passage through its territory to American-backed Kurdish militias so they could fight against America’s NATO ally Turkey.

    The Syrian regime at the same time attacked these American-backed...

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