Ready For The Storm: Israel Ensuring Syrian Conflict Doesn’t Cross Borders

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The Jerusalem Post reports: The fragile cease-fire declared in Syria on February 27 between regime and rebel forces is in the process of crumbling. Assad’s forces have launched an offensive across southern Aleppo province.

Fighting is also taking place in Homs and northwest Hama provinces and east of Damascus. There are reports of regime forces massing for an assault on rebel-controlled eastern Aleppo city.

The cease-fire, in any case, applied to only one of the many conflicts taking place in Syria. It did not extend to the war between Islamic State and the Western-supported, Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces. It did not include the fight between Islamic State and other rebel and Sunni Islamist groups.

Nor did it apply to the intermittent fighting between the Kurdish YPG and the rebels, or the Kurds and the regime.
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