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Further strikes on Syria unlikely - but Trump is always the wild card

  • Written by Mehmet Ozalp, Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
Further strikes on Syria unlikely - but Trump is always the wild cardAir strikes by the US, France and Britain destroy the Scientific Research Center building in Damascus, Syria.AAP/ Youssef Badawi

A head-spinning series of events in the past few weeks have taken us from the United States pulling out of Syria, to analysts predicting the beginning of a third world war.

What has really happened in Syria, what are the...