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In this article

• Tipping points
• Organised opposition
• Arms flows
• Western intervention
• Rebels gain strength
• Main scenarios
• War of attrition
• Coup
• Negotiated settlement
• Post-Assad Syria
• Regional fallout
• Lebanon
• Jordan
• Turkey
• Iraq
• Iran
• International implications

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