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Nearly 7 Years After It Began, Syria's Civil War Gets Even More Complicated

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Israeli security stands around the wreckage of an F-16 that crashed in northern Israel, near kibbutz of Harduf, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018. The Israeli military shot down an Iranian drone it said infiltrated the country early Saturday before launching a "large-scale attack" on at least a dozen Iranian and Syrian targets inside Syria, in its most significant engagement since the fighting in neighboring Syria began in 2011. Responding anti-aircraft fire led to the downing of an Israeli fighter plane. (Rami Slush/AP)
Israeli security stands around the wreckage of an F-16 that crashed in northern Israel, near kibbutz of Harduf, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018. The Israeli military shot down an Iranian drone it said infiltrated the country early Saturday before launching a "large-scale attack" on at least a dozen Iranian and Syrian targets inside Syria, in its most significant engagement since the fighting in neighboring Syria began in 2011. Responding anti-aircraft fire led to the downing of an Israeli fighter plane. (Rami Slush/AP)

The civil war in Syria will be seven years old next month and the conflict shows no sign of abating. Instead, it seems to be getting even more complicated.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman (@TBowmanNPR), who's just back from Syria.

This segment aired on February 12, 2018.

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