In a country with as many difficulties as Syria, no realistic observer could expect that the path to a better future would be a straight one. Given the toxic legacy from decades of misrule and civil war, as well as interference from outside countries, putting the nation back together was never going to be easy.
So it has proved over the past weeks in Syria’s north-east. Weeks of bitter combat there pitted the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces against Syria’s military as well as a plethora of other armed groups.
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