defend the territory from pro-Assad forces.

Turkey has sent forces into the northwest to counter those same Kurdish groups, carving out a buffer zone where anti-Assad rebels have regrouped.

In the southwest, where rebels hold territory at the Israeli and Jordanian border, Assad faces the risk of conflict with Israel, which wants his Iranian-backed allies kept well away from the frontier and has mounted air strikes in Syria.for protection, care, and
        assistance to the people of the state in need thereof, and to promote the welfare and happiness of all of the
        people of the state by providing appropriate aid and services to all of its needy and distressed. It is the
        legislative intent that aid shall be administered and services provided promptly and humanely, with due
        regard for the preservation of family life, and without discrimination on account of race, national origin or
        ancestry, religion, sex, marital status, or political affiliation; and that aid shall be so administered and
