Although the Assad regime has retaken the M5 highway, the cost for Syria has been the destruction of the country
"When we would travel between Damascus and Latakia on vacation with my family we would stop at a famous sweet shop called Tayyba," says Mustafa al Homsi*, who now lives in Istanbul working as a tech developer.
The Assad regime at one point had lost control of vast sections of the road to a smorgasbord of Syrian groups fighting to overthrow the family that has ruled the country with an iron fist for the last 40 years. The M5 highway has been a critical road map of destruction as the regime seeks to establish a semblance of sovereignty over Syria and, more importantly, to connect to Aleppo, formerly an economic hub.
The recent Assad regime offensive and capture of Saraqib, a town at the intersection between the M4 and M5 in Idlib province, was a strategic coup. The Assad regime's recent capture of the city of Ma'arrat Al Nu' man along the M5 highway, previously one of the few places still under rebel control in Idlib, suggests that Damascus and its backers want to push rebels and civilians alike to the countryside in their bid to control urban centres.
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