• Analysis: The budding insurgency in southern Syria

    Yesterday, a low-quality video depicting an IED attack on a regime checkpoint in southern Syria was uploaded to the internet. A relatively unknown group, the Popular Resistance, claimed credit within the video itself. While this small outfit has claimed a series of sporadic attacks since its inception last fall, it nonetheless represents a budding insurgency in Syria’s southern areas. The efforts of the group, or other popup organizations, are a good indicator of what’s to come in a post-regime ‘victory’ Syria. Following the Assad regime’s recapture of the southern provinces of Deraa and Quneitra last summer, tensions have remained high…

    Analysis: The budding insurgency in southern Syria