After a decade of war in what used to be Syria, are 10 further years of conflict the best that can be expected? Syria is a plurality of furiously competing polities: Rebel-held Idlib; Turkish-occupied northern areas; eastern regions where Kurdish forces, US troops and Iranian proxies jostle for supremacy; territories nominally under Assad’s control; a residual Daesh presence in some remote areas; not to forget Israel’s occupation of the Golan ...