1 / 6 |
Prior to his assassination, this military leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force played a major role in training fighters in support of long-serving Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Name him.

2 / 6 |
What do the Syrian Kurds call the de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria that is now under their control? 

3 / 6 |
Name the rebel force that was trained by the United States and composed of Syrian Arab Army defectors and that is now in control of territory near Syria’s border with Iraq and Jordan. 

4 / 6 |
Which ethnoreligious group is Bashar al-Assad, the de jure ruler of Syria, affiliated to? What stream of Islam is it an offshoot of? 

5 / 6 |
This intellectual, a Christian by birth, is considered a major influence in the development of the Ba’athist movement – the Assad regime still professes a divergent variant of it. Name him. 

6 / 6 |
The key leader behind the dramatic rebel advances in Syria in recent days is also said to have been handpicked by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to establish a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria. He now distances his organisation from al-Qaeda. Name him.