What led Bashar al-Assad to abandon Syria in the night (literally) after 54 years of Assad family rule? What will become of Syria? Is the Arab country of the Levant now a de facto Turkish protectorate? Is the Turkish National Oath being realized in the Middle East? What stance will the Kurds, Druze, Alawites, and Christians take in Syria?

Before 2012, MIT did not have the organizational chart, the credits, or the human and technological resources that the circumstances in Syria required...