Bashar alAssad’s hold on Syria is weakening as Islamist HTS rebels take the major city of Hama just days after storming Aleppo. CBC News foreign correspondent Margaret Evans explains the stakes for the Assad regime at a time when his allies are fighting their own battles.

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