VICE News: "Rebels Ignored the Islamic State in South Syria, and It's Come Back to Haunt Them"

New from me and Avi Asher-Schapiro at VICE News:

Southern rebels have mostly been ignoring their local proto-ISIS creeps – in part, they say, because the US and their other state backers told them to. But now ISIS has come for them, and they're realizing they made a mistake.

https://news.vice.com/article/rebels-ignored-the-islamic-state-in-south-syria-and-its-come-back-to-haunt-them

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