The battle of al-Qusayr, the border town that Syrian government forces wrested from rebels on Wednesday after two bloody weeks of combat, carries significance beyond its position as a crucial crossroads and battered symbol of the staying power of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Al-Qusayr also marks the point at which Syria’s civil war indisputably flared beyond the borders of a single, riven nation and began to fulfill dire prophecies that the bloodletting there would produce a broader conflict that might engulf the whole Middle East on the lines of Islam’s main sects: Sunni against Shi‘ite.
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