One of the most complicated episodes in Syria’s ever-twisting war took place the night of Feb. 7. In that incident, U.S. troops and their Syrian allies near the town of Deir al-Zour were attacked by hundreds of fighters loyal to the Syrian regime. The Americans responded with a devastating counterattack that the United States said left about 100 dead.
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A picture taken on Feb. 10, from the Syrian village of Atme in the northwestern province of Idlib shows smoke plumes rising in the village of Deir Ballut in the Afrin region, where Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebel groups are conducting an offensive, following Turkish air strikes, according to local eyewitnesses.
