This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel, visiting with my colleague and friend, Gregorick-Hoply,

editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs. The Middle East, 2,000 years of turmoil,

from the Roman province of Armenia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia into Lower Egypt.

No one has successfully solved the revanchism, French word, didn't exist 2,000 years ago, but there it is.

And the disorder continues.

Israel has been at war since October of last year with elements of the Iranian alliance.

Right now, there's a new actor on the scene who's an old actor.

His name is Abu Mohammed Al-Jalani.

That's his nom de Gar.

He's a veteran of jihad, a veteran of al-Qaeda, coming out of Idlib province.

We're told there are Turkish hands at work here, pushing Al-Jalani on an offensive into Aleppo,

the second largest city in Syria, towards Oma, and making loud claims that he's going to depose

Assad at Damascus.

This is the Syrian Civil War reigniting, or which has never, the flame's never been turned

off, but Turkey is at the northern border.

Israel's at war in the southern borders, and Assad is closely protected by the Russians who've launched air strikes against

the so-called rebels who are jihadists. And there have been words about the command structure

of Russia in Syria. Gregory, there are too many sides here for me to summarize more than this.

However, I measure that this might have been expectable.

Do you see the timing of it in some fashion on the basis of the ceasefire in Lebanon

or these independent bad acts?

There are no independent bad acts in that region.

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