While Syria’s former jihadist-turned-president shakes hands with world leaders in the White House, his country is collapsing back home.
Syria today is a broken mosaic of rival groups — each refusing to surrender to an Islamist regime that has already committed massacres against them.

In the south, the Druze dream of an autonomous state backed by Israel.

In the northeast, the Kurds are unwilling to give up the territory they fought to secure.

Along the coastal regions, the defeated Alawites have gone underground, waiting for a chance at revenge.

With the country divided into ethnic, religious, and political islands, the question looms:
Does the United States have any plan — any “solution” — for this impossible puzzle?