Adam Rawnsley is a Philadelphia-based reporter covering technology and national security. He co-authors FP’s Situation Report newsletter and has written for The Daily Beast, Wired, and War Is Boring.
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Russian Air Force Su-24 bombers fly during a military exercise in southern Russia on February 11, 2015. Marathon talks in Belarus ended on February 12 with a ceasefire announcement in the war between Ukraine and pro-Moscow rebels, but Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that "big hurdles" remained. AFP PHOTO / SERGEY VENYAVSKY (Photo credit should read SERGEY VENYAVSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
Syrian soldier sets fire on April 4, 2016 to an Islamic State (IS) group flag after Syrian troops regained control the previous day of al-Qaryatain, a town in the province of Homs in central Syria.
IS jihadists withdrew from the town a week after the Russian-backed army and allied militia scored a major victory in the ancient city of Palmyra, which is also located in the vast province of Homs. The recapture of al-Qaryatain allows the army to secure its grip over Palmyra, where jihadists destroyed ancient temples during their 10-month rule and executed 280 people.
/ AFP / JOSEPH EID (Photo credit should read JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
JARABULUS, SYRIA - AUGUST 29: Members of Free Syrian Army (FSA) are seen after they took control of ten villages in Jarabulus and three villages in Rai region from Daesh terrorists during the "Operation Euphrates Shield" led by Turkish Army and backed by Syrian National Coalition forces including Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Syria on August 29, 2016. The anti-Daesh operation, called Euphrates Shield, is aimed at clearing terrorist groups from the Turkish border region, tightening border security, and supporting Syrias territorial integrity. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
ALEPPO, SYRIA - AUGUST 26: Members of Free Syrian Army (FSA) carry out a house to house search, quitted by Daesh members, in Jarabulus district of Aleppo, Syria after taking control of the district's centrum from Daesh terrorists during the "Operation Euphrates Shield" led by Turkish Army and backed by Syrian National Coalition forces including Free Syrian Army (FSA) on August 26, 2016. The anti-Daesh operation, called Euphrates Shield, is aimed at clearing terrorist groups from the Turkish border region, tightening border security, and supporting Syrias territorial integrity.
(Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
SANLIURFA, TURKEY - OCTOBER 23: Turkish tanks and armoured vehicles hold their position as they watch the Syrian town of Kobani from near the Mursitpinar border crossing, on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of October 23, 2014 in Suruc in Sanliurfa province. The Syrian town of Kobani has yet again seen fierce fighting between Islamic State and Syrian Kurdish forces. Kurdish authorities have agreed to send Peshmerga fighters to the Northern Syrian town to fight ISIL after Turkey has allowed passage. (Photo by Kutluhan Cucel/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - A fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) rests on a rooftop on the outskirts of the town of al-Shadadi in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakeh, on February 19, 2016.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance dominated by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), seized on Friday the town of al-Shadadi, a bastion of the Islamic State group (IS) in the Hasakeh province, in northeastern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. / AFP / Delil souleiman (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Fighters from Syria's Manbij military council sit on June 15, 2016 in the back of a pickup truck on the outskirts of the northern Syrian town of Manbij, which is held by jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group, during an operation to try to retake the town.
Hundreds of civilians escaped the IS stronghold of Manbij in nearby Aleppo province on June 12, helped by a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance surrounding the town. Tens of thousands had been trapped inside Manbij after the alliance encircled the town on June 10 in a major blow to the jihadist group controlling it.
/ AFP / DELIL SOULEIMAN (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
SEVASTOPOL, RUSSIA - JULY 31, 2016: Russian servicemen take part in a ship parade marking Russian Navy Day. Alexei Pavlishak/TASS (Photo by Alexei PavlishakTASS via Getty Images)
Iraq, Khanaqin // 21th June, 2014 // Special forces of the Peshmerga dont make a secret of their symphaties to the US-forces (Photo by Sebastian Backhaus/NurPhoto) (Photo by NurPhoto/Corbis via Getty Images)
Members of the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) stand guard at the military site in Juba, after the arrival of new troops and their chief of staff on April 25, 2016.
Rebel spokesman William Ezekiel said that 195 troops landed along with South Sudan's top rebel military commander Simon Gatwech Dual, to provide security for Machar, who he said hoped to return on April 26. Some of the rebel troops looked visibly nervous, but others were more cheerful and raised fists into the air as their leader shouted "Viva SPLA, viva SPLM!" -- the acronym for the army and ruling party divided by the war.
/ AFP / Charles Lomodong (Photo credit should read CHARLES LOMODONG/AFP/Getty Images)
SYRIA - AUGUST 14, 2016: A Tupolev Tu-22M3 long-range bomber carries out airstrikes against ISIS targets in the districts to the South West, East and North East of the Syrian city of Dayr al-Zawr using high-explosive fragmentation weapons. Russian Defence Ministry's Press and Information Department/TASS (Photo by TASSTASS via Getty Images)
An image grab taken from an AFP video dated from August 12, 2016 shows a school that was used by Islamic State (IS) group's fighters to manufacture explosives in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, almost a week after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of Arab and Kurd fighters, seized the group's stronghold. / AFP / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA- AUGUST, 9 (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen prior to the meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (not pictured) in Konstantin Palace in Strenla, Saint Petersburg, August,9, 2016. President of Turkey is having a one-day visit to Putin's hometown. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
Iraqi pro-government forces hold an Islamic State (IS) group flag in the al-Dhubat II (Officers) neighbourhood of Fallujah as they try to clear the city of IS fighters still holed up in the former jihadi bastion on June 19, 2016.
Despite facing less resistance than expected from IS in Fallujah, an emblematic jihadist stronghold, sniper fire, car bombs and booby traps remained a risk for Iraq's forces as they try to clear central Fallujah of pockets of IS fighters.
/ AFP / HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI (Photo credit should read HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI/AFP/Getty Images)
ALEPPO, SYRIA - AUGUST 06: Members of anti-regimist opposition forces group named Jaish al-Fatah, clash with Assad Regime soldiers based at Syrian Army Artillery School and military academy in Ramouseh region of Aleppo, Syria on August 06, 2016. Syrian opposition forces has started an operation to break Assad forces' siege over Aleppo. (Photo by Beha El Halebi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
