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The eight-year war for control of Syria has drawn in outside powers including the U.S., Russia, Iran and the European Union. In the latest chapter, Turkish tanks rolled into northeastern Syria to push back a Kurdish militia long seen as a key part of the U.S.-led international campaign that destroyed Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate centered in Syria. The Turkish offensive has already delivered a major advance for the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and its backers in Moscow an