Related Tags Syria What is happening? Syria’s civil war, which has been largely frozen for over four years, has erupted again in startling fashion. Rebels who control Idlib province and adjacent parts of north-western Syria broke through the Syrian army’s lines, driving east, capturing Aleppo, the country’s second city, and cutting the crucial M5 highway connecting it to the capital Damascus in a matter of days. The offensive has overturned a delicate set of arrangements that had kept fighting