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The CIA’s Syria Program and the Perils of Proxies

SHADOW WAR

After fighting al Qaeda and its affiliates for a decade and a half, the CIA is now helping them gain ground in Syria.

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Almost every aspect of the Obama administration’s policy toward Syria has been scrutinized, lambasted or praised in recent months, but one of the most significant facets, the CIA’s covert aid program to Syrian rebels, has largely slipped below the radar.

It is time that we start paying attention, since this initiative...

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