The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad ended 50 years of an oppressive regime in Syria, propped up by Russia, Iran, and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. But his fall is accompanied by enormous uncertainty about the country's future after the rise to power of a broad Islamist coalition led by a militia that until recently was the armed wing of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group in the region.

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