Një perandori xhihadiste lindi në Siri

Një perandori e re islamike lindi; Mos e përkrahni atë.

Shumica e banorëve të Lindjes së Mesme dhe pjesës tjetër të botës nuk i kuptojnë pasojat shkatërruese të zhvillimit të ri në Siri (Al-Sham).

Gjenerata e re e xhihadistëve është më e sofistikuar se çdo grup terrorist në të kaluarën. Ata kanë durim dhe nuk nxitojnë të sulmojnë armiqtë e tyre; Strategjia e tyre e re është të ndërtojnë infrastrukturë, institucione dhe të fitojnë njohje globale për të krijuar një komb xhihadist.

Xhihadistët kanë mësuar nga gabimet e tyre të mëparshme; Ata e kuptojnë se brezi i vjetër nuk arriti t'i arrijë qëllimet e tij për shkak të paaftësisë së tyre për të shkatërruar Perëndimin dhe për faktin se ata ishin në ndjekje të vazhdueshme nga agjencitë e inteligjencës. Ata shmangin gabimet e mësuesve të tyre, al-Zawahiri dhe Abdullah Azzam. Strategjia e re është krijimi i një klime të përshtatshme që do të çojë në krijimin e një shteti xhihadist.

Shtetet e Bashkuara dhe aleatët e tyre duhet të përmbahen nga njohja ose legjitimimi i sundimtarëve të rinj të Damaskut, pavarësisht sa të sofistikuar janë ata në përpjekjet e tyre për të manipuluar komunitetin ndërkombëtar duke emëruar figura të moderuara qeveritare.

Edhe pse mund të duket kundër intuitës, eliminimi i udhëheqësve rebelë, dhe veçanërisht al-Jolani, përpara se të fitojnë mbështetje, do të lejojë që një udhëheqje legjitime të krijohet.

Vlerësimi ose shpërblimi i xhihadistëve për rrëzimin e diktatorit brutal të Sirisë do të ishte një gabim; Ata mund të kenë luajtur një rol të rëndësishëm, por nuk janë forca e vetme që rrëzoi Assadin.

Al-Jolani ka potencialin për të krijuar një shtet të fuqishëm terrorist, të cilin nuk e kemi parë kurrë. Ai ka në plan ta ndërtojë ngadalë, me mend dhe me durim. Ky terrorist botëror nuk u bë nga xhihadist në burrë shteti; Ai e ka transformuar veten nga një xhihadist i thjeshtë në një kalif modern islamik dhe lejimi i tij të fuqizohet do të ketë pasoja fatale për njerëzimin.

Ore per ju zgjidhje do te ishte shfarosja e gjithe lindjes, te vendosen kolonite amerikane, izraelite dhe europiane atje edhe me ne fund te gjejne paqe te gjithe ata qe i shqeteson jeta normal e lindjes se mesme.

As se marr mundin te lexoj, i shfarosen fuqit te medhaja mbi gjysem milion misliman.. ju flisni per "xhihadistat"..jo o jo ska xhihadist, por njerezit vet jane ngrit ne kembe se i shfarrosen ne menyre me çnjerzore. Po nuk ju ben pershtypje se jane musliman!
Terroristat dihet kush jane tashme.
Mo popullsia nuk i han kto prralla!

Diniel00, zemer çka po te mundon Po tu dhimet Asadi dhe Russia
E di qe ke te njejten fe te tyre, por njeriu duhet ti shikoi gjerat nga prizmi i drejtesise. Nje udheqes qe vret popullin e vete quhet xhelat. Dhe ata qe e rrezojne nga pushteti Xhelatin quhen çlirues. E mira dhe e keqja eshte e njejte per te gjithe. Sic Slloba ishte i keq per neve shqiptareve, ata qe e luftuan dhe perzun prej Kosove u quajten Ushtria CLIRIMTARE e Kosoves. Krenaria e popullit apo jo? U quajten ne mbar boten Clirues, kurse ata per shkiet dhe ruset ishin xhihadist!
Per te miren dhe te keqen nuk ka standarde te dyfishta. Njeriu vetem duhet te drejtohet ne cilen ane eshte ne te miren apo ne te keqen. Popujt e shtypur gjithehere jane ne miren.

Vajza said:

As se marr mundin te lexoj, i shfarosen fuqit te medhaja mbi gjysem milion misliman.. ju flisni per "xhihadistat"..jo o jo ska xhihadist, por njerezit vet jane ngrit ne kembe se i shfarrosen ne menyre me çnjerzore. Po nuk ju ben pershtypje se jane musliman!
Terroristat dihet kush jane tashme.
Mo popullsia nuk i han kto prralla!

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Mos u merzit @Vajza

Hajt perhajr e njekt izraeli tash.

Punk1 said:

Mos u merzit @Vajza

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Smerzitem jo.

Vajza said:

Smerzitem jo.

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Shyqyr se deri tani prandaj qendrova ne forum
Naten e mire per momentin

Punk1 said:

Shyqyr se deri tani prandaj qendrova ne forum
Naten e mire per momentin

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Najt

Me mire nje perandori "xhihadiste" se sa nje popull i vujtem neper burgjet e siris !


Lexo lexo ca ndodh neper ato burgje
I sigurt qe do provokosh ankthin me bet 5000

Soulmind said:

Ore per ju zgjidhje do te ishte shfarosja e gjithe lindjes, te vendosen kolonite amerikane, izraelite dhe europiane atje edhe me ne fund te gjejne paqe te gjithe ata qe i shqeteson jeta normal e lindjes se mesme.

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meqe e keni "kuptuar" "situaten dhe cfare behet fjale



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Mohamad Hasan Sweidan

Just in time for the Al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) lightning conquest of Syria, a western PR campaign was launched to rebrand the terror group’s leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani.

The English channel British broadcast channel assured their readers that Julani, now commonly referred to as Ahmed al-Sharaa – which is his real name – had “reinvented himself,” while the Telegraph insisted that the former deputy to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is now “diversity friendly.”

On 6 December, just days before entering the capital Damascus, Julani sat down with CNN journalist Jomana Karadsheh for an exclusive interview to explain his past.

“Julani says he has gone through episodes of transformation through the years,” CNN wrote, after he assured Karadsheh “no one has the right to eliminate” Syria’s Alawites, Christians, and Druze.

But why was Julani so eager to convince the American public that he had no plans to exterminate Syria’s religious minorities? This question looms larger when recalling the massacre of 190 Alawites in Latakia on 4 August 2013, and the taking of hundreds more as captives.

Back then, militants from HTS (then the Nusra Front), ISIS, and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) attacked 10 villages, slaughtering civilians in ways documented by Human Rights Watch: gunshot wounds, stabbings, decapitations, and charred remains. “Some corpses were found in a state of complete charring, and others had their feet tied,” the report stated.

Another useful US asset

Fast forward to recent years, and Julani’s “transformation” seems less about repentance and more about utility. Despite HTS remaining on the US terror list – and an American bounty of $10 million reserved for Julani himself – former US special envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, described the group as a strategic “asset” for US operations in Syria.

Under the guise of countering extremism, Washington pursued a dual strategy: enforcing crushing economic sanctions on Syria – of the sort that killed 500,000 Iraqi children in the 1990s – while ensuring its wheat-abundant and oil-rich regions remain under US control.

Ambassador Jeffrey admitted to PBS in March 2021 that Julani’s HTS was the “least bad option of the various options on Idlib, and Idlib is one of the most important places in Syria, which is one of the most important places right now in the Middle East.”

But how did Julani ascend to power in Idlib, which US official Brett McGurk described as “the largest Al-Qaeda safe haven since 9/11,” while failing to mention the critical US role in bringing it about? His Nusra Front spearheaded the 2015 conquest under the banner of Jaish al-Fatah (the Army of Conquest), a coalition that combined Nusra suicide bombers with Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters equipped with CIA-supplied TOW missiles. Foreign Policy hailed the campaign’s swift progress, crediting this synergy of jihadists and western arms.

Years later, US official Brett McGurk would label Idlib “the largest Al-Qaeda safe haven since 9/11.” Yet, the crucial role of US weapons and strategic aid in this outcome went unmentioned.

Assistance from Tel Aviv and Brussels too

This assistance extended beyond arms: the Financial Times (FT) reported that in response, EU foreign ministers “lifted an oil embargo against Syria to allow rebels to sell crude to fund their operation.”

While the FSA claimed control of the oil fields, activists openly acknowledged that the Nusra Front was the true beneficiary, trucking barrels to Turkiye for refining or export to Europe. The arrangement netted Nusra millions before ISIS seized the fields a year later.

Academic and Syria expert Joshua Landis noted the importance of controlling the oil fields, explaining that “Whoever gets their hands on the oil, water, and agriculture holds Sunni Syria by the throat” and that “the logical conclusion from this craziness is that Europe will be funding Al-Qaeda.”

Behind the scenes, western and regional powers facilitated Julani’s ascent. Israeli airstrikes supported Nusra during clashes with Syrian forces, while outgoing Israeli Army Chief Gadi Eisenkot admitted to supplying “light weapons” to rebel groups – essentially acknowledging what the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) had been reporting for years to “discredit the rebels as stooges of the Zionists.”

Previous reports in the Wall Street Journal showed that Israel had for years provided humanitarian and medical aid to “rebels” in southern Syria, including by bringing Nusra fighters across the border into Israel for treatment.

In an interview with The American Conservative in border village Beit Jinn, militants revealed that Israel had been paying salaries – to the tune of $200,000 per month – for the entire year before HTS troops were expelled from the area by the SAA and fled to Idlib.

Meanwhile, the US oversaw a “cataract of weaponry” to Syria’s opposition, as described by the New York Times. Though publicly earmarked for the FSA, these arms frequently ended up in Nusra’s hands.

Julani’s meteoric rise began years earlier, seeded by his ties to Al-Qaeda in Iraq and its Jordanian leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The latter, whose activities conveniently justified the US invasion of Iraq, operated with tacit US acknowledgment.

Julani followed a similar trajectory, emerging as a key player in the Nusra Front, which conducted bombings in Damascus and other cities in 2011 and 2012, with attacks initially misattributed to the Syrian government.

A salafist principality

Why did the EU choose to “fund Al-Qaeda” by dropping oil sanctions? Why did the US provide a “cataract of weaponry” to Nusra?

An August 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report revealed that the US and its regional allies supported the establishment of a “Salafist principality” in eastern Syria and western Iraq as part of the effort to depose president Bashar al-Assad and divide the country.

The DIA report said a radical religious mini-state exactly of the sort later established by ISIS as its “caliphate” was the US goal, even while admitting that the so-called Syrian revolution seeking to topple Assad’s government was being driven by “Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and al-Qaeda.”

The seeds of the Salafist principality were planted when late ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi dispatched Julani to Syria in August 2011 – at that time, Baghdadi’s group was known as the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI).

Prominent Lebanese journalist Radwan Mortada, who was embedded with Al-Qaeda fighters from Lebanon in Syria, met Julani in the central Syrian city of Homs at this time. Mortada informs The Cradle that Julani was being hosted by the Farouq Brigades, an FSA faction based in the city.

Contrary to media reports, Farouq commanders insisted the group was not comprised of defectors from the Syrian army. Instead, they said Farouq was a sectarian Salafist group that included fighters who had fought for Zarqawi’s Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) after the 2003 US invasion.

A few months later, Julani and his fighters secretly entered the war against the Syrian government by carrying out multiple terror attacks. In Damascus on 23 December 2011, Julani sent suicide bombers to target the General Security Directorate in Damascus, killing 44, including civilians and security personnel.

Two weeks later, on 6 January 2012, Julani sent another suicide bomber to detonate explosives near a bus in the Midan district of Damascus, killing some 26 people.

The establishment of the “Support Front for the People of the Levant,” or the Nusra Front, was revealed after a videotape was provided to journalist Mortada showing Julani and other masked men announcing the group’s existence and claiming responsibility for the attacks, which opposition activists had blamed on the Syrian government itself.

The great prison release

Julani’s rise, however, was facilitated years earlier. In what has been dubbed the “Great Prison Release of 2009,” the US military freed 5,700 high-security detainees from Bucca Prison in Iraq. Among these was Julani, alongside future ISIS leaders like Baghdadi. Craig Whiteside of the US Naval War College described Camp Bucca as “America’s Jihadi University,” emphasizing the role of these releases in revitalizing the Islamic State of Iraq – which had been nearly defeated by Sunni tribal uprisings.

“The United States is often unjustly blamed for many things that are wrong in this world, but the revitalization of ISIL [ISIS] and its incubation in our own Camp Bucca is something that Americans truly own,” Whiteside wrote.

“The Iraqi government has many enemies, and the United States helped put many of them out on the street in 2009. Why?” Whiteside wondered, not realizing they would be sent to Syria as part of the US’s covert war to topple Bashar al-Assad.

More alarming today is the prospect of HTS releasing thousands of ISIS fighters from US–Kurdish prisons in Syria's north to expand their ranks. It wouldn't be the first time. This past July, American-backed Kurds released around 1,500 ISIS prisoners from detention camps, which the US military describes as an ISIS “army in waiting.”

The question of who Abu Mohammad al-Julani is – his motivations, ideologies, and transformations – is ultimately less important than what he represents. Over the past two decades, one fact remains consistent: Julani is a tool of US and Israeli strategy.

From his early days in Iraq to his rise as the leader of the Nusra Front and later HTS, Julani has played a pivotal role in advancing the geopolitical interests of his benefactors. Whether branded a terrorist or a “blazer-wearing” moderate, his actions have consistently served as a means to destabilize Syria and the wider West Asian region.

Julani’s “reinvention” is no more than a veneer designed to mask the enduring reality of his role: a strategic asset in a game where ideology is secondary to power.





On the heels of thinly veiled threats from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was “playing with fire,” and seizing the opportunity presented by the sudden collapse of the Syrian state, the occupation army invaded Syrian territory for the first time in 50 years.

The pretext of establishing a “buffer zone” was a transparent attempt to conceal Israel's historic regional agenda: the weakening and fragmentation of Arab states to facilitate Tel Aviv's regional domination.

Exploiting the power vacuum that ensued from the fall of Damascus, Israel launched hundreds of air strikes to cripple Syria's already weakened military capabilities, and patted itself on the back for what it called the largest air blitz in its history. Its land forces and armored vehicles now lay a few kilometers from the Syrian capital, having literally driven through border terrain without a single challenge by opposing troops.

For many observers in neighboring Lebanon – and perhaps Iraq and other regional states – the Israeli rout answered a critical question: if they relinquished the will or capacity to defend themselves, would this too be Lebanon's fate?

A legacy of expansionism

The concept of ‘Greater Israel’ is deeply rooted in Zionist ideology. From Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, to revisionist figures like Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and even Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, expansionist ambitions have been a consistent theme.

Oded Yinon's plan, A Strategy for Israel in the Eighties, further solidified this vision. First made public in the magazine Kivunim (Directions) of the World Zionist Organization in February 1982, the plan was based on the vision of Herzl, and the founders of the Israeli state in the late 1940s, among them Polish-born, US Zionist leader Jacob Fishman.

From North Africa to the Levant to the Arabian Peninsula, Yinon advocated a strategy of breaking up and chronically weakening Arab states in order to ensure Israel's long-term security.

“Israel’s policy, both in war and in peace, ought to be directed at the liquidation of Jordan under the present regime and the transfer of power to the Palestinian majority … The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern front … Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria ... The entire Arabian peninsula is a natural candidate for dissolution due to internal and external pressures, and the matter is inevitable especially in Saudi Arabia … Egypt is divided and torn apart into many foci of authority. If Egypt falls apart, countries like Libya, Sudan or even the more distant states will not continue to exist in their present form and will join the downfall and dissolution of Egypt.”

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This destructive and expansionist drive is not confined to historical Israeli figures. Current Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has openly stated his desire for Israel to control territory extending to Damascus and including Jordan. In a 2016 interview, he is quoted as saying: “Our great religious elders used to say that the future of Jerusalem was to extend as far as Damascus.”

More recently, following the fall of Damascus, Smotrich pressed: “It is time to seize control of Gaza and strip Hamas of its civilian authority, cutting off its lifeline,” and to launch an all-out offensive in the occupied West Bank.

Such pronouncements, far from being isolated incidents, reflect a core Zionist principle that resurfaces with increased intensity during times of conflict.

The ongoing war in Gaza exemplifies this. Nearly 10 months after the start of the war, Netanyahu said of the Occupied Palestinian Territory: “It is part of our homeland. We intend to stay there.” Smotrich's display of a ‘Greater Israel’ map encompassing all of historic Palestine and Jordan during a 2023 visit to Paris further illustrates these ambitions.

Historically, these far-right expansionist fantasies are rooted in religious beliefs that the ‘Promised Land’ stretches from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in Iraq. These beliefs have been seeded and advanced by the leaders of the Zionist movement since its inception more than 120 years ago.

Breaking up West Asia

Their expansionist fantasies are not merely ideological. The Yinon Plan outlined a strategy for breaking Arab states into weak, sectarian ones, each dependent on Israel for survival. Iraq is to be divided into Kurdish, Sunni, and Shia states, Lebanon reduced to fragments, and Syria obliterated. This is not a theory – it’s a Zionist roadmap for domination, and the occupation state’s aggression in Syria is a direct implementation of these sinister goals.

Israel’s actions in Syria lay bare the insatiable greed of the occupation state. Without resistance movements in neighboring Lebanon, Israeli tanks would undoubtedly have rolled deep into Lebanese territory, seizing lands far beyond the south of the Litani.

The evidence is clear. Since the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect on 27 November, the Israeli occupation army has violated Lebanese sovereignty at least 195 times. These violations include airstrikes, drone incursions, artillery bombardments, and the destruction of homes – acts of terror meant to keep Lebanon on its knees.

The Lebanese government and armed forces, shackled by limited capacity and international neglect, have been unable to halt this aggression. International mechanisms like the five-member committee – comprising the US, France, Lebanon, Israel, and UNIFIL – are nothing more than diplomatic theatrics.

Resistance: The barrier against occupation

A day after the committee meeting on 9 December, the Israeli army committed 12 violations of the ceasefire agreement.

They meet, they talk, but they fail to act. While these parties dither, Tel Aviv tightens its grip, proving time and time again that the only language it understands is the language of force. This is why Lebanon’s resistance remains the only genuine national safeguard against Israeli aggression.

Southerners in Lebanon know this truth intimately: without the resistance, Israel’s greed knows no bounds. Every incursion, every violation, is a reminder that resistance is not just a choice – it’s a necessity.

The unrelenting aggression of the occupation state reveals a harsh reality; in a world dominated by power, weakness invites exploitation. Realists in international relations argue that power is the only currency that matters, and Lebanon’s experience validates this view.

Resistance movements have demonstrated that the balance of power is the sole way to curb Tel Aviv’s appetite and ambitions. Israel's expansionism will not end with Syria or Palestine. It eyes every vulnerable nation in the region, seeking to carve it up and dominate.

The lesson is clear. Only through resilience and force can sovereignty be defended. Resistance is not just a shield – it is the only path to survival against an entity that thrives on destruction and occupation.

The short headline defining the abrupt, swift end of Syria as we knew it would be: Eretz Israel meets new-Ottomanism. The subtitle? A win-win for the west, and a lethal blow against the Axis of Resistance.

But to quote still-pervasive American pop culture, perhaps the owls are not what they seem.

Let’s start with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s surrender. Qatari diplomats, off the record, maintain that Assad tried to negotiate a transfer of power with the armed opposition that had launched a major military offensive in the days prior, starting with Aleppo, then swiftly headed southward toward Hama, Homs, aiming for Damascus. That’s what was discussed in detail between Russia, Iran, and Turkiye behind closed doors in Doha this past weekend, during the last sigh of the moribund “Astana process” to demilitarize Syria.

The transfer of power negotiation failed. Hence, Assad was offered asylum by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. That explains why both Iran and Russia instantly changed the terminology while still in Doha, and began to refer to the “legitimate opposition” in a bid to distinguish non-militant reformists from the armed extremists cutting a swathe across the state.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov – his body language telling everything about his anger – literally said, “Assad must negotiate with the legitimate opposition, which is on the UN list.”

Very important: Lavrov did not mean Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Salafi-jihadi, or Rent-a-Jihadi mob financed by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) with weapons funded by Qatar, and fully supported by NATO and Tel Aviv.

What happened after the funeral in Doha was quite murky, suggesting a western intel remote-controlled coup, developing as fast as lightning, complete with reports of domestic betrayals.

The original Astana idea was to keep Damascus safe and to have Ankara manage HTS. Yet Assad had already committed a serious strategic blunder, believing in lofty promises by NATO messaged through his newfound Arab leader friends in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

To his own astonishment, according to Syrian and regional officials, Assad finally realized how fragile his own position was, having turned down military assistance from his stalwart regional allies, Iran and Hezbollah, believing that his new Arab allies might keep him safe.

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was in shambles after 13 years of war and ruthless US sanctions. Logistics were prey to deplorable corruption. The rot was systemic. But importantly, while many were prepared to fight the foreign-backed terror groups once again, insiders say Assad never fully deployed his army to counterattack the onslaught.

Tehran and Moscow tried everything – up to the last minute. In fact, Assad was already in deep trouble since his visit to Moscow on 29 November that reaped no tangible results. The Damascus establishment thus regarded Russia’s insistence that Assad must abandon his previous red lines on negotiating a political settlement as a de facto signal pointing to the end.

Turkiye: ‘we have nothing to do with it’

Apart from doing nothing to prevent the increasing atrophy and collapse of the SAA, Assad did nothing to rein in Israel, which has been bombing Syria non-stop for years.

Until the very last moment, Tehran was willing to help: two brigades were ready to get into Syria, but it would take at least two weeks to deploy them.

The Fars News Agency explained the mechanism in detail – from the Syrian leadership's inexorable lack of motivation to fight the terror brigades to Assad ignoring serious warnings from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei since June, all the way to two months ago, with other Iranian officials warning that HTS and its foreign backers were preparing a blitzkrieg. According to the Iranians:

“After Aleppo fell, it became clear that Assad had no real intentions of staying in power, so we started to engage in diplomatic talks with the opposition, and arranged the safe exit of our troops from Syria. If the SAA does not fight, neither will we risk our soldiers' lives. Russia and the UAE had managed to convince him to step down, so there was nothing we could do.”

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There’s no Russian confirmation that they convinced Assad to step down: one just needs to interpret that failed meeting in Moscow on 29 November. Yet, significantly, there is confirmation, before that, about Turkiye knowing everything about the HTS offensive as far back as six months ago.

Ankara’s version is predictably murky: HTS told them about it, and asked them not to intervene. Additionally, the Turkish Foreign Ministry spun that President-Caliph Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried to warn Assad (no word from Damascus on that). Ankara, on the record, via Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, firmly denies orchestrating or approving the Rent-a-Jihadi offensive. They may regret this yet, with everyone from Washington to Tel Aviv jumping in to take credit for the fall of Damascus.

Only the NATO propaganda machine believes this version – as HTS has been for years completely supported not only by Turkiye, but also, covertly, by Israel, which was outed for paying salaries to the extremists during the Syrian war, and famously helped rehabilitate Al-Qaeda fighters injured in battle.

All that leads to the predominant scenario of a carefully calculated CIA/MI6/Mossad controlled demolition, complete with a non-stop weaponizing flow, Ukrainian training of takfiris on the use of FPV kamikaze drones, and Samsonites full of cash bribing high-ranking Syrian officials.

New Great Game reloaded

The Syrian collapse may be a classic case of “extending Russia” – and also Iran, when it comes to the all-crucial land bridge that connects it with its allies in the Mediterranean (the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance movements). Not to mention sending a message to China, which, for all its lofty “community of a shared future” rhetoric, had done absolutely nothing to help in the reconstruction of Syria.

On the geo-energy level, now there are no more obstacles to the resolution of an epic Pipelineistan saga – and one of the key reasons for the war on Syria, as I analyzed it nine years ago: building the Qatar–Turkiye gas pipeline through Syrian territory to provide Europe with an alternative to Russian gas. Assad had rejected that project, after which Doha helped fund the Syrian war to depose him.

There’s no evidence that key Persian Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia and UAE will gleefully accept Qatar’s geoeconomic stardom if the pipeline is built. For starters, it needs to run through Saudi territory, and Riyadh may no longer be open to that.

This burning question connects to a pile-up of other questions, including, with the Syrian gateway all but gone: how will Hezbollah receive weapons supplies in the future, and how will the Arab world react to Turkiye trying to go full Neo-Ottoman?

Then there’s the thorny case of BRICS partner-state Turkiye directly clashing with top BRICS members Russia, China, and Iran. Ankara's new turn may even end up causing it to be rejected by BRICS, and not granted a favorable trade status by China.

While a case can certainly be made that losing Syria may be devastating for Russia and the Global Majority, hold those horses - for now. In the event of losing the port of Tartous that the USSR-Russia has run since 1971, alongside the Hmeimim air base – and thus being ousted from the Eastern Mediterranean – Moscow would have replacing options, with different degrees of feasibility.

We have Algeria (a BRICS partner), Egypt (a BRICS member), and Libya. Even the Persian Gulf: that, incidentally, could become part of the Russia–Iran comprehensive strategic partnership, to be officially signed on 25 January in Moscow by Putin and his Iranian counterpart President Masoud Pezeshkian.

It's extremely naïve to assume that Moscow was caught by surprise by the staging of an alleged Kursk 2.0. As if all Russian intel assets – bases, satellites, ground intel - would not have scrutinized a bunch of Salafi-Jihadis for months assembling an army of tens of thousands in Greater Idlib, complete with a tank division.
So it’s quite plausible that what’s being played is classic Russia, combined with Persian guile. It didn’t take long for Tehran and Moscow to do the math on what they would lose – especially in terms of human resources – by falling into the Bukurosh of supporting an already enfeebled Assad in yet another bloody, protracted ground war. Still, Tehran offered military support, and Moscow, air support, and negotiations scenarios till the very end.

Now, the whole Syrian tragedy – including a possible Caliphate of all-Sham led by reformed, minority-hugging jihadist Abu Mohammad al-Julani – falls into the full managing responsibility of the NATO/Tel Aviv/Ankara combo.

They are simply not prepared to navigate the ultra-complex tribal, clannish, embedded in corruption Syrian matrix – not to mention the magma of 37 terror outfits only kept together, so far, by the tiny glue of ousting Assad. This volcano will certainly explode in their collective faces, potentially in the form of horrendous internal battles that may last at least a few years.

Syria’s northeast and east are already, instantly, mired in total anarchy, with a multitude of local tribes bent on keeping their mafioso schemes at all costs, refusing to be controlled by a US–Kurd Rojava composite that is largely communist and secular. Some of these tribes are already getting cozy with the Turk-supported Salafi-jihadis. Other Arab tribes had this year joined forces with Damascus against both the extremists and Kurdish secessionists.

Western Syria may also be anarchy territory, as in Idlib: bloody rivalry between terror and bandit networks, between clans, tribes, ethnic groups, and religious groups regimented by Assad, the panorama even more complex than in Libya under former President Muammar al-Gaddafi.

As for the Head-Choppers' supply lines, they will inevitably be stretched – and then it will be easy to cut them off, not only by Iran, for instance, but also by the NATO wing via Turkiye/Israel when they turn against the Caliphate, as they invariably may if the latter's abuses become too media-apparent.
No one is able to foresee what will happen to the carcass of Assad-dynasty Syria. Millions of refugees may return, especially from Turkiye, which Washington has for years tried to prevent to protect its “Kurdification” project in the north - but at the same time, millions will flee, terrified by the prospect of a new Caliphate and a renewed civil war.

Is there a possible ray of light amongst such gloom? The leader of the transition government will be Mohammad al-Bashir, who was, until recently, the prime minister of the so-called Syrian Salvation Government (SSG) in HTS-ruled Idlib. An electrical engineer by training, Bashir added a further degree to his education in 2021: Sharia and law.

Losing Syria should not mean losing Palestine

The Global Majority may be mourning what, on the surface, looks like a nearly lethal blow against the Axis of Resistance. Yet there’s no way Russia, Iran, Iraq – and even thunderously silent China – will let a NATO-Israel-Turkiye-backed Salafi-jihadi proxy army prevail. Unlike the collective west, they are smarter, tougher, infinitely more patient, and consider the contours of the Big Picture ahead. It’s too early; sooner or later they will start rollin’ to prevent western-backed jihadism from spilling into Beijing, Tehran, and Moscow.

Russian foreign intel agency Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki (SVR) now has to be monitoring 24/7 what will be the next destination of the large cross-Heartland Salafi-jihadi brigade in Syria, overwhelmingly Uzbeks, Uighurs, Tajiks, and a sprinkle of Chechens. There’s no question they will be used to “extend” (US Think Tankland terminology) not only Central Asia but the Russian Federation.
Meanwhile, Israel will be overstretched in the Golan. The Americans will temporarily feel safe and secure around the oil fields from which they will keep stealing Syrian oil. These are two ideal latitudes for the start of what would be the first concerted BRICS retaliation against those who are unleashing the First BRICS War.

Then there’s the ultimate tragedy: Palestine. A massive plot twist took place right inside the venerable Umayyad mosque in Damascus. The NATO-Israeli-Turk Head-Chopping Army is now promising the Palestinians they are coming to liberate Gaza and Jerusalem.

Yet until this past Sunday, it was all “We love Israel.” The MC of this PR op – designed to fool the Muslim world and the Global Majority - is none other than the Caliph of al-Sham himself, Julani.

As it stands, the new regime in Damascus will be, for all practical purposes, backed by those who support and engineer Eretz Israel and the genocide of Palestine. It’s already out in the open, coming from Israeli cabinet officials themselves: Tel Aviv ideally would love to expel the population of Gaza and the West Bank to Syria, though Jordan is their preferred destination.

This is the battle to focus on from now on. The late Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah was adamant when he insisted on the deeper meaning of losing Syria: “Palestine would be lost.” More than ever, it’s up to a Global Resistance not to allow it.

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Ore per ju zgjidhje do te ishte shfarosja e gjithe lindjes, te vendosen kolonite amerikane, izraelite dhe europiane atje edhe me ne fund te gjejne paqe te gjithe ata qe i shqeteson jeta normal e lindjes se mesme.

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Do vehen astet te cifutve israelit, dhe amerika si slafistet dhe pupet goverment qe kane gezuar vete mbrojten nga israeli ne lufte me Asadin.

Asadi qe mbrojtsi kryhesor financues i palestines dhe hesbullahut bashke me iranin.

The biggest backstabers to palsetine and shills have always been turkey, and saudies due to their conflict of interest

@Aeacus nuk eshte se lexoj gje ca sjell me thene te drejten

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@Aeacus nuk eshte se lexoj gje ca sjell me thene te drejten

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Po athere mos thoni se middle east po e shkatrojn evriopjanet nqs nuk doni te kuptoni gjepolitiken.

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Po athere mos thoni se middle east po e shkatrojn evriopjanet nqs nuk doni te kuptoni gjepolitiken.

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mos u merzit

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mos u merzit

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Jo nuk jam i merizt fare. Thjesht po them them realitetin e gjepoltikes dhe konflikteve te interesave qe ti nuk e more parasysh.

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Israel is secretly supporting Syrian rebels operating near its occupied Golan Heights territory, providing money, food, fuel and medical supplies, according to fighters who claim to receive the aid.

Israel has previously treated wounded Syrian rebels in its hospitals but interviews with rebels conducted by the Wall Street Journal suggest that Israel is directly supporting opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the six-year-long civil war.

Israel is opposed to the rule of Assad and his forces. It also sees militants belonging to Lebanese militia Hezbollah who support Assad's regime forces as posing a threat to its security on the Golan Heights border.

The payments are aimed at creating a buffer of friendly forces on the Golan Heights border, the Journal reports, to keep their foes at a distance.

It says the Israeli military has direct communication with rebel commanders and is providing funds to them that pay for their salaries, ammunition and weapons. The payments began in 2013 under former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and continue.

Read more: Israel launches airstrikes in Syria prompting retaliation
One particular group that Israel is allegedly supporting is Fursan al-Joulan, or the Knights of the Golan, which has around 400 fighters. It gives them $5,000 a month and Israel's support ensures its existence, according to the group's figures.

"Israel stood by our side in a heroic way," the group's spokesman, Moatasem al-Golani, said to the Journal . "We wouldn't have survived without Israel's assistance." He said the cooperation began when the group's wounded fighters began receiving care in Israeli hospitals.

Israel has directly intervened in the Syrian civil war only when it feels that its national security is threatened. It has struck Syrian regime outposts or bases in retaliation for any action against it, such as the transfer of arms from Iran to the country. Damascus and Hezbollah accuse it of carrying out targeted assassinations of key Hezbollah commanders based in Syria. Israel does not comment on the operations.

Hezbollah and Israel fought a one-month war in 2006 but tensions have remained since and the Israeli military elite has become increasingly concerned by a growing Hezbollah presence in Syria where the group supports Assad. According to Israel, the group already poses a security threat to its northern border with Lebanon. Syria claims the Golan Heights to be its territory, one that Israel occupied in the Six-Day War.

The Israeli military did not respond to a Newsweek request for comment on the payments. An Israeli source told the Journal that money does cross into Syria, but only as humanitarian aid, contradicting the fighters' accounts.

EURASIAAl-Qaeda-linked ‘rebels’ in Syria say they ‘love Israel’. USA gave them billions in weapons & support
The US spent billions over years arming and training militants in Syria, many linked to Al-Qaeda and ISIS. The extremist “rebels” who took over the country told the Israeli media they “love Israel”.


ByBen NortonPublished2024-12-06
Syria rebels extremist US Israel support
The United States spent billions over years arming and training militants in Syria, many linked to Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

Current US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan admitted back in 2012 that “AQ [Al-Qaeda] is on our side in Syria”.

In December 2024, armed extremists overthrew the Syrian government and seized power in the capital Damascus, in an operation sponsored by NATO member Turkey.

This assault was led by a rebranded Al-Qaeda militia that espouses a fanatical Salafi-jihadist ideology.

Some of the Al-Qaeda-linked “rebels” who now rule Syria told the Israeli media that they “love Israel”. They vowed to establish a new pro-Western regime in the country.

Israel has for years given weapons and other forms of support to extremist “rebels” in Syria, including Al-Qaeda. They successfully toppled the government of President Bashar al-Assad, who had refused to recognize Israel and had provided military aid to resistance groups in the region.



Rebranded Al-Qaeda takes over Syria
The Salafi-jihadist militants who seized Syria’s second-biggest city Aleppo in late November, and subsequently took over Damascus on December 8, were portrayed sympathetically in Western media as “rebels”, but they were led by rebranded Al-Qaeda.

The main armed group that conquered Syria is called Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which emerged out of the country’s Al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra (also known as the Nusra Front). This was previously the largest branch of Al-Qaeda in the world.

HTS superficially distanced itself from Al-Qaeda as part of a Western-backed public relations campaign to depict itself as more “moderate”. Neoconservative think tanks in Washington have whitewashed HTS leaders as “diversity-friendly jihadists”, but they still maintain the same fascist ideology.

In fact, despite this cynical rebranding effort, the US government officially recognized HTS as a terrorist organization in 2018, adding the extremist group to its previous designation of Jabhat al-Nusra.

Terrorist designations like this, nevertheless, have not stopped the US and its allies in Israel, Turkey, and the Gulf monarchies from providing support to Al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria.

HTS had previously established a de facto government in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, where it ruled with an iron fist, with direct assistance from NATO member Turkey.

The rebranded Al-Qaeda militia used Idlib as its base of operations to launch the assault on neighboring Aleppo in November 2024. Major French media outlet AFP reported that Syrian “opposition sources in touch with Turkish intelligence said Turkey had given a green light to the offensive”.

After taking Aleppo, the extremists moved south and captured the capital, overthrowing the government.

Israel’s far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took credit for the victory of the rebranded Al-Qaeda death squad.

Netanyahu proudly stated that the fall of Assad was “a direct result of the blows we have inflicted on Iran and Hezbollah”.



Jake Sullivan: “AQ is on our side in Syria”
The fact that Syrian Al-Qaeda has been allied with the West was acknowledged by none other than Jake Sullivan, who serves as national security advisor in the Joe Biden administration.

When Barack Obama was president, Sullivan was a top aide for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In 2012, he used his State Department email to send Clinton a message — which was later made public by WikiLeaks.

“AQ is on our side in Syria”, Sullivan wrote, using an acronym for Al-Qaeda.

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Operation Timber Sycamore: CIA support for Syrian rebels
After violent protests broke out in Syria in 2011, the United States began to flood the country with weapons.

The CIA launched a covert program to arm and train rebel groups attempting to overthrow the Syrian government. The Washington Post reported in 2015 that this initiative had “a budget approaching $1 billion a year”, meaning that “Syria-related operations account for about $1 of every $15 in the CIA’s overall budget”.

This CIA program, called Operation Timber Sycamore, was, in the words of the New York Times, “one of the most expensive efforts to arm and train rebels since the agency’s program arming the mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the 1980s”, which was known as Operation Cyclone.

Just as Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan set the stage for Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Operation Timber Sycamore in Syria fueled the growth of Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

The Pentagon publicly admitted in 2015 that rebels armed and trained by the United States and its allies gave their weapons to Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra.

Amnesty International also found that the genocidal fascists in ISIS (also known as ISIL or Islamic State) were using US weapons.

The mainstream British organization Conflict Armament Research, which is funded by European governments, similarly concluded that many of the weapons that the US and allies such as Saudi Arabia provided to rebels in Syria ended up going to ISIS.



DIA document admits Al-Qaeda & Islamic State dominated Syrian opposition from beginning
Although Washington publicly claims it did not intentionally support Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria, internal documents show that US officials knew their policies were strengthening the genocidal extremist groups.

A bombshell declassified 2012 memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reveals that, from the start, “The Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria”. AQI is a reference to Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which later evolved into ISIS.

“AQI supported the Syrian opposition from the beginning”, the DIA wrote in the cable, which was forwarded to the US State Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Homeland Security, and FBI, as well as directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

“The West, Gulf countries, and Turkey support the opposition; while Russia, China, and Iran support the regime”, the document added.

DIA Syria opposition Al Qaeda Salafist Iraq

The DIA could clearly see in 2012 that “there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime”.

Deir ez-Zor was later taken over by ISIS, just as the DIA predicted.

The Pentagon intelligence analysts similarly foresaw that “ISI [the Islamic State of Iraq] could also declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria”, which would attract “terrorist elements from all over the Arab world”. They pointed to the Iraqi city of Mosul as another potential location for this “Salafist principality”.

All of this is exactly what happened in the years that followed: ISI took over Mosul, and it expanded into Syria, forming ISIS (or ISIL), while using US weapons to commit genocide and mass murder.

This document makes it clear that US officials were fully aware from the start of their dirty war on Syria that their support for the “rebels” would empower extremist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS. They nevertheless proceeded to spend billions of dollars flooding the country with weapons.

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Israel supports Syrian rebels, including Al-Qaeda
Israel was directly supporting Al-Qaeda-linked “rebels” in Syria as well. In 2019, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot publicly admitted that Israel had given weapons to Syrian rebels trying to overthrow the government of President Assad.

Israel even directly aided Syrian Al-Qaeda. The Times of Israel reported in 2015 that “Israel has opened its borders with Syria in order to provide medical treatment to Nusra Front and al-Qaida fighters wounded in the ongoing civil war”.

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Characterizing Al-Qaeda as a “lesser evil”, the Wall Street Journal quoted Israel’s former military intelligence chief, Amos Yadlin, who said that Shia Islamic-nationalist political forces like Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran “are the major threat to Israel, much more than the radical Sunni Islamists”.

Yadlin happily noted that Al-Qaeda “hasn’t bothered Israel”, and was instead focused on fighting Israel’s enemies for it. “Those Sunni elements who control some two-thirds to 90% of the border on the Golan [Heights] aren’t attacking Israel”, remarked the former military intelligence chief. “This gives you some basis to think that they understand who is their real enemy – maybe it isn’t Israel”.

A prominent Israeli think tank that does contract work for NATO published a paper in 2016 arguing that the West should not destroy ISIS, because it was a “useful tool” against Iran, Hezbollah, and the Syrian government. The think tank stressed, “The continuing existence of IS [Islamic State] serves a strategic purpose”.

While they were committing genocide against Shia Muslims and other religious minorities, ISIS extremists publicly showed sympathy with Israel. In 2017, Israel’s former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon revealed that ISIS had “apologized” to Tel Aviv after accidentally attacking Israeli forces in the Golan Heights, which is sovereign Syrian territory that has been illegally occupied by Israel for decades, according to international law.

Times of Israel ISIS apologized defense minister

Syrian rebels say they “love Israel”
After rebranded Al-Qaeda took over Aleppo in late November 2024, several Syrian “opposition activists” spoke with the Israeli media. As Israel used US weapons to carry out a blatant genocide in Gaza, these Syrian “rebel” leaders heaped praise on the regime of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces an International Criminal Court arrest warrant over crimes against humanity committed against the Palestinian people.

Israel’s state media outlet Kan interviewed rebels from Aleppo and Idlib, who said, “We love Israel and we were never its enemies… [Israel] isn’t hostile to those who are not hostile toward it. We don’t hate you, we love you very much”.

According to the Times of Israel, the Syrian militants praised Israel for bombing Hezbollah. They credited Israel’s war on Lebanon for helping them to conquer Aleppo.

A Syrian rebel commander told Israel’s Channel 12 that the militants sought to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad and to create a new government that has good relations with all countries in the region, “including with Israel”.

The rebel commander asked Israel to directly attack Syria, stating, “We call on the Israeli leadership to launch intensive attacks against the positions and troops of the Iran-backed militias in Syrian territory”.

Israel has already bombed Syria hundreds of times in the past decade, targeting anti-colonialist fighters from the Axis of Resistance.

The United States has also bombed Syria dozens of times since 2011, including most recently in November 2024.

axis of resistance map
A map of the Axis of Resistance in West Asia (the Middle East)

US tries to divide and conquer Axis of Resistance
Washington has sought to divide the Axis of Resistance, which consisted of anti-colonialist political forces in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Palestine, including both formal state actors and semi-state armed groups like Hezbollah, Ansarallah (also known as the Houthis), and Hamas.

Syria had been an important part of this network, providing weapons to resistance groups that are fighting against US and Israeli military occupiers.

Reuters reported in December that the US government and its allies in the United Arab Emirates were pressuring Syria to cut its close ties to Iran and to end weapons shipments to national-liberation groups like Hezbollah.

In return for fragmenting the Resistance Axis, Washington offered to lift the suffocating sanctions it has imposed on Syria.

The United States and European Union had for years maintained crushing unilateral sanctions on Syria, in flagrant violation of international law.

The UN’s top expert, special rapporteur Alena Douhan, said these Western sanctions on Syria are “outrageous” and are “suffocating” millions of civilians. She wrote that they “may amount to crimes against humanity”.

Western sanctions had devastated Syria’s economy, causing high levels of inflation and shortages of food and fuel.

These shortages had been exacerbated by the US military’s illegal occupation of Syrian sovereign territory in the east of the country, where its oil reserves are located.

US troops are occupying Syria’s oil fields. Congress refuses to withdraw them

(Editor’s note: When this article was first published on December 6, Salafi-jihadist militants had control of Aleppo and Idlib, and were moving toward the capital. This article was updated on December 9 to note that these extremists led by rebranded Al-Qaeda conquered Damascus and officially overthrew the Syrian government on December 8.)

We Are Not Looking For A Fight With Israel: HTS Leader Jolan

already conducted at least 300 major strikes on Syria since Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took over Damascus and much of the country, with President Assad having fled to Moscow, where's he's been given asylum.

Israeli warplanes have been able to launch attacks with impunity, having decimated airbases, missile storehouses, and even chemical weapons facilities. Israel has finally degraded and destroyed what was once among the most feared anti-air defense system and network in the region (which is why previously Israeli warplanes only launched attacks on Syria from over Lebanese airspace).

Throughout this past week, HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani (who is now reverting to his birth name of Ahmad al-Sharaa) remained noticeably silent on the non-stop Israeli attacks which have kept all of Damascus awake at night and involved low flying Israeli warplanes.


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But on Saturday Jolani is seeking to give Israel 'assurances' - also as IDF tanks and troops have crossed into Syria and have expanded occupation of more parts of the south. He said his new government has "no intention of confronting Israel."

"We are not looking to engage in a conflict with Israel and cannot bear such a battle," Jolani continued, and further pointed out he's not looking for war with Iran either.

He signaled intent for "no hostilities with the Iranian people" but also called Assad's ouster "a victory over the dangerous Iranian project in the region."

He said Syrian state "should not be governed with a revolutionary mindset, and we need laws and institutions [to this end]" - as he pledges to bring stability and has said he won't let his forces embark on revenge killings.

There have been reports of Sunni Islamist militants targeting Alawite villages in the Latakia or possibly central Syrian countryside, but thus far no evidence of attacks on ethno-religions minorities in Damascus or major cities have emerged.

The Druze community, which is an Islamic offshoot in the south and considered heretical by hardline Sunnis, is deeply fearful and some tribes near Golan are actually seeking Israeli production. The Druze leadership doesn't trust the jihadists of HTS and are actually petitioning Israel to annex their villages:

Syria rebels appear to credit Israeli strikes on Hezbollah with aiding shock advance
Opposition figures speaking to Israeli TV say they love Jewish state and want to forge friendship;
report indicates Hezbollah may be sending forces to Syria as Assad looks for help



Anti-government fighters ride military vehicles as they drive along a road in the eastern part of Aleppo province on December 1, 2024. (Aref TAMMAWI / AFP)
Anti-government fighters ride military vehicles as they drive along a road in the eastern part of Aleppo province on December 1, 2024. (Aref TAMMAWI / AFP)
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A Syrian rebel involved in a re-energized insurgency challenging regime forces reportedly told an Israeli network that the IDF’s campaign against Iran-backed forces had likely aided opposition fighters who managed to capture Aleppo and other areas in a lightning offensive last week.

Insurgents led by jihadi group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a two-pronged attack on Aleppo and the countryside around Idlib on Wednesday, notching major gains and dealing a huge embarrassment to Syrian leader Bashar Assad, while increasing pressure on his allies Iran and Russia — which are preoccupied with their own conflicts.

The rebel offensive was launched just as a ceasefire went into effect between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, which had suffered serious setbacks to its manpower and arsenal in recent weeks after Jerusalem launched an intensified campaign aimed at neutralizing the threat posed by the terror group to northern Israel.

“Nobody knows if Iran and the regime would have been weakened without the recent Israeli attacks in Syria, which have allowed us to return and free the lands and the country,” a man described as an opposition activist from the Aleppo area told Israel’s Kan public broadcaster in comments aired Sunday. Israel has for a long time carried out periodic strikes against Iranian targets and weapons transfers in Syria.

Another rebel figure from the Idlib area who spoke to the network thanked Jerusalem and said the opposition was “very satisfied” with Israel’s actions against Hezbollah

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Ska se ti te kuptohen ndryshe keto rrjedhime ne Lindjen e Mesme dhe ne pergjithesi ne Bote!

"Koincidencë" që mbasi erdhën kta terroristë në pushtet dhe hoqën Asadin s ettlements po rriten dhe legalizohen në Golem Heights nga Israeli




Israeli soldiers and military vehicles cross the fence into the buffer zone between Israel and Syria by the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights on Saturday. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post).
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The Israeli government on Sunday approved a plan to expand settlements on the occupied Golan Heights, saying it was acting “in light of the war and the new front facing Syria” as the country uses the power vacuum next door to consolidate security on its border and advance its aims of growing settlements.

“Strengthening the Golan is strengthening the State of Israel, and it is especially important at this time. We will continue to hold onto it, cause it to blossom, and settle in it,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the decades-long Assad family regime on Dec. 8, Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes across Syria and carried out a land incursion that stretches past the occupied Golan Heights into a previously demilitarized buffer zone. The Israeli army swiftly took abandoned army positions, and air attacks have decimated most of Syria’s military capabilities.

Syria’s de facto new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, on Saturday denounced what he described as Israel’s “uncalculated military adventures” since his rebel group took power last week, but said he was more interested in state-building than opening another conflict. “Syria’s war-weary condition, after years of conflict and war, does not allow for new confrontations. The priority at this stage is reconstruction and stability, not being drawn into disputes that could lead to further destruction,” he said in an interview on Syria TV.

His comments appeared to do little to placate Israel’s government, and more airstrikes were launched overnight. “Despite the so-called moderate appearance of rebel leaders, the defense budget must be increased to address the escalating threats,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday.

Here’s what else to know
Geir O. Pedersen, the U.N. envoy to Syria, said during a visit to Damascus, the Syrian capital, that the country’s political transition needs to be inclusive. “Change in itself creates great hopes, but we all know there are many challenges still ahead of us,” he said Sunday ahead of meetings planned with Syria’s caretaker government.
Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler said Sunday that his country’s priority was to defeat Kurdish forces in Syria and that Turkey was prepared to provide military support to the new administration.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that U.S. officials have been in direct contact with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and that he hopes Syria’s interim leaders will adhere to a set of principles in exchange for support and recognition of a future Syrian government. Blinken is also pushing for the destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles.
Blinken said Saturday he “impressed upon everyone” during his visit the importance of finding missing American journalist Austin Tice, who was abducted near Damascus 12 years ago.
The United States, Turkey and other Middle Eastern and Western powers issued a statement Saturday saying the transitional political process in Syria “must be Syrian-led and Syrian-owned” and “produce an inclusive, non-sectarian and representative government.”

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Syria uninterested in conflict with Israel, cautious of provoking Russia, rebel leader says
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Abbie Cheeseman
Syria’s de facto new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, denounced Israel’s land incursion and airstrikes that have pounded the country since his rebel group took power last week, but he said he was more interested in state-building than opening another conflict.

“Israeli arguments have become weak and no longer justify their recent violations. The Israelis have clearly crossed the lines of engagement in Syria, which poses a threat of unwarranted escalation in the region,” Sharaa, leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), said in an interview Saturday with Syria TV.

Sharaa, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani until a rebel coalition headed by his forces toppled President Bashar al-Assad’s regime last Sunday, called on the international community to support diplomatic solutions to Israel’s escalation.

Israeli officials have characterized the advance as a measure to prevent rebels or militias from using abandoned military equipment to attack Israel.

“Syria’s war-weary condition, after years of conflict and war, does not allow for new confrontations. The priority at this stage is reconstruction and stability, not being drawn into disputes that could lead to further destruction,” Sharaa said.

Vying for international legitimacy, he sought to temper concerns that his group of Islamist rebels, which was once affiliated with al-Qaeda and remains on the U.S. State Department’s terrorist list, will not allow pluralism in Syria. He described the efforts to overthrow the brutal Assad family dynasty as being shared by all Syrians.

The rebel leader added that he wants to avoid provoking Russia, which over the past decade propped up the Assad regime and dropped hundreds of thousands of bombs over the country in doing so.

“The current stage requires careful management of international relations,” he said, in a marked shift from his previous direct criticism of Moscow for its airstrikes on the breakaway province of Idlib that HTS governed.

The United States, Turkey and other Middle Eastern and Western powers issued a statement Saturday setting out their hopes for Syria’s future as they adjust to the country’s new leaders. “The transitional political process must be Syrian-led and Syrian-owned” and “produce an inclusive, non-sectarian and representative government,” the countries said. They affirmed their “full support for Syria’s unity, territorial integrity and sovereignty.”

Turkey, which previously supported HTS, has emerged as the outside power with the strongest hand in steering the country’s political transition.

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Netanyahu said he spoke with his ‘friend’ Trump about ‘need to complete Israel’s victory’
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Alon Rom and Sammy Westfall
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday night, and the two discussed the “need to complete Israel’s victory” and efforts to release hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, Netanyahu said in a statement.

Calling Trump “my friend,” Netanyahu said the conversation was “very friendly, warm and important.”

In his video statement, Netanyahu also gave broader comments on the situation in Syria. He said he wanted to clarify that Israel has “no interest in confrontation” with Syria, saying “our policy towards Syria will be determined by the reality on the ground.”

He and Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz directed the Israel Defense Forces to “neutralize potential threats from Syria and to prevent terrorist elements” from establishing a foothold near Israeli borders, he said. Israel, within days, destroyed capabilities built by the regime of Bashar al-Assad over decades, he added.

Netanyahu issued a warning to Hezbollah and Iran: “To prevent you from harming us, we will continue to act against you whenever necessary, in any arena and at any time.”

He also convened the Israeli security cabinet on Sunday, according to the prime minister’s office.

“A year ago, I made a simple statement: We will change the Middle East, and we are indeed changing it,” Netanyahu said. “Syria is no longer the same Syria, Lebanon is no longer the same Lebanon, Gaza is no longer the same Gaza, and the head of the axis — Iran — is no longer the same Iran. They, too, have felt the weight of our strength.”

Meanwhile, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Florida), Trump’s incoming national security adviser, was asked on CBS’s “Face the Nation” if Trump planned to keep some 900 U.S. troops in Syria.

He said his “number one interest” is “keeping a lid on” the Islamic State.

“We cannot have an explosion of ISIS back into a caliphate that threatens Iraq, threatens Jordan, threatens Turkey and Europe, inspires attacks in the United States like we saw in 2014. President Trump cleaned it up then with his team,” Waltz said.

He said that they’re in “consultation with the Israelis,” who are “importantly taking down Assad’s chemical stockpiles as well as other things we don’t want falling into the hands of anybody.”


Israeli attack on north Gaza school kills 15, hospital director says
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At least 15 people were killed in an Israeli attack on a school in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza, the director general of Gaza’s Health Ministry, Munir al-Bursh, said Sunday, as Israeli forces continue their two-month offensive in the area.

Local media reported that displaced families were sheltering in the Khalil Adwan school when Israeli troops targeted the building with gunfire and artillery.

In a statement Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said its troops conducted a “targeted raid” in the area, killing dozens of militants through a combination of “air and ground” strikes and detaining others. “Numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians,” it said.

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, there were five Israeli attacks in the past day that collectively killed at least 46 people. At least 44,976 people have been killed in Gaza during the war and 106,759 injured, according to the the Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilian and militants.

In October, the IDF renewed its offensive in the northern border communities of Jabalya, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia. The IDF says it is attacking reemergent Hamas targets but has laid waste to much of the cities and ordered residents to evacuate.

In a statement Friday, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said “thousands of Palestinians are facing apocalyptic conditions after almost 10 weeks under siege” in the enclave’s north, lacking the basic necessities of survival, including food, water, medicines and shelter supplies.


Iran’s military chief condemns Israeli intervention in Syria, warns of ‘heavy price’
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Susannah George
Iranian officials condemned Israeli military incursions into Syrian territory, calling on the Syrian people to rise up against the actions. Since the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, Israeli ground forces have pushed into Syrian territory as its warplanes launched hundreds of airstrikes across the country.

The commander in chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, said following the withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria: “The Zionists can now see into the houses of the people of Damascus with their naked eye.”

Salami called the situation in Syria “intolerable” and said “the youth of Syria will liberate the occupied territories, and the Zionists will fall,” according to a summary of his remarks published by Iranian state media.

Over the past week, the hundreds of Israeli airstrikes launched at Syrian territory destroyed advanced weapons and military equipment, including air defenses, according to Israel’s military. “The Zionists will pay a heavy price. They will be buried in the land of Syria, but this process will take time,” Salami said.

Salami also accused global and regional powers of attempting to “ignite conflicts in Syria” and behaving “like hungry wolves attacking a lone gazelle in the desert, each tearing apart a piece of its body.”

Assad’s fall leaves Iran exposed politically and militarily. Iran’s leadership is coming under considerable pressure at home, with even people supportive of the regime questioning why so much money was spent for so long to prop up Assad.

In his first remarks since Assad’s fall, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, acknowledged Wednesday that Assad’s fall was a blow to Iran’s regional policy of arming militias to form a forward line of defense. But he said Iran’s allies would recover.

“The more pressure you exert, the stronger the resistance becomes,” he said, referring to the allied militias. “Iran is strong and powerful — and will become even stronger.”


Assad’s fall to Islamist rebels in Syria unsettles region’s autocrats
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Claire Parker and Susannah George
CAIRO — The scenes that emerged from Syria this week recalled some of the headiest days of the Arab Spring. Rebels had toppled a dictator, and people danced in the streets. At the same time, crowds of Syrians broke open regime prisons, freeing their loved ones and hundreds more political detainees.

The renewed revolutionary fervor, in a region still ruled by autocrats, has unsettled Arab leaders, many of whom had recently resumed ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Damascus university students cheered and rode on top of a toppled statue of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad on Dec. 15. (Video: Reuters)
The leaders — from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — are worried that Assad’s ouster could stir unrest at home, analysts, officials and diplomats say. They are also concerned that Syria could plunge into chaos and are watching warily as Islamist rebels, led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, gain power in Damascus.

This is an excerpt from a full story.

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Journalist who broke news of decomposing babies in Gaza is killed
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Miriam Berger, Hajar Harb, Hazem Balousha and Niha Masih
The Palestinian journalist who last year broke the news of four premature babies who died and decomposed in an evacuated hospital in Gaza City was killed Saturday by a strike close to his home in northern Gaza, according to his employer, the Emirati-owned Al Mashhad TV channel.

Mohammed Balousha “was a determined individual, dedicated to spreading the truth and reporting on the situation in Gaza,” George Eid, the head of news at Al Mashhad, wrote in an email to The Washington Post.

The Israel Defense Forces told The Post that it was not “aware of a strike in the area” at that time.

Hassan al Zaneen, a journalist, said Balousha lived in the Saftawi neighborhood north of Gaza City. Israeli forces have for several months encircled, bombarded and forcibly displaced people from that neighborhood and Gaza’s most northern border communities.

“Mohammad remained in his home to practice his profession as a journalist,” Zaneen said.

Balousha, he said, was hit by shrapnel and neighbors took him to a main street that an ambulance was able to access. He died at the Sheikh Radwan medical clinic, facility director Hussein Mohsen told The Post.

“Despite our repeated pleas for him to take a break, he refused to leave,” Eid said. “His courage and dedication were unmatched. He will be deeply missed, and journalism has lost yet another beacon of hope.”

Balousha continued to work after he was shot and badly injured in the leg last December. At the time, he told The Post that he believed an Israeli sniper at a nearby building shot him. He recorded a video of his ordeal; he said he spent six hours bleeding and trying to climb to his second-floor home. The IDF did not respond to a request for comment on the incident.

In November 2023, Balousha reported that four premature babies left behind at al-Nasr Children’s Hospital had died and their bodies had decomposed. Israeli forces had ordered health-care workers to evacuate or risk being bombarded, hospital staff said, and had not provided enough ambulances.

The Post interviewed Balousha about the discovery.

The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the Israeli agency that oversees the Palestinian territories, denied that it had forced staff to evacuate but declined to answer whether it or the Israeli military had been told about the babies or had taken action to care for them.

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The Israel-Gaza war has gone on for over a year, and tensions have spilled into the surrounding Middle East region.

The war: On Oct. 7, Hamas militants launched an unprecedented cross-border attack on Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking civilian hostages. We’re tracking how many hostages remain in Gaza. Israel declared war on Hamas in response, launching a ground invasion that fueled the biggest displacement in the region since Israel’s creation in 1948. In July 2024, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an attack Hamas has blamed on Israel.

Cease-fire: Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah agreed to a cease-fire deal in November 2024, bringing a tenuous halt to more than a year of hostilities. Here’s what to know about the deal’s terms and how it will be enforced.

Hezbollah: Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, a militant organization backed by Iran, have escalated over the past year, leading to an Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Israel’s airstrikes into Lebanon have grown more intense and deadly, killing over 1,400 people including Hasan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s longtime leader. The Israel-Lebanon border has a history of violence that dates back to Israel’s founding.

Gaza crisis: In the Gaza Strip, Israel has waged one of this century’s most destructive wars, killing tens of thousands and plunging at least half of the population into “famine-like conditions.” For months, Israel has resisted pressure from Western allies to allow more humanitarian aid into the enclave.

U.S. involvement: Despite tensions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some U.S. politicians, including President Biden, the United States supports Israel with weapons, funds aid packages, and has vetoed or abstained from the United Nations’ cease-fire resolutions.

Koincidencë dhe që u financuan nga Amerika cifutet neocons, Turqia, Israeli dhe qatari dhe saudët.

Keq jane te dyja por........
Me mire nje perandori xhihadiste se sa nje shtet terroristo-ekspansionist!

Ndryshimi?
Perandorine xhihadiste do ta 'vuajne' ata qe jetojne aty.
Shteti terroristo-ekspansionist eshte rrezik per kedo qe gjendet ne rrezen e tij te veprimit.

Si perfundim?
Kurre mos pafshin drite xhihadistet e aq me pak terroristo-ekspansionistet-sioniste!

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Keq jane te dyja por........
Me mire nje perandori xhihadiste se sa nje shtet terroristo-ekspansionist!

Ndryshimi?
Perandorine xhihadiste do ta 'vuajne' ata qe jetojne aty.
Shteti terroristo-ekspansionist eshte rrezik per kedo qe gjendet ne rrezen e tij te veprimit.

Si perfundim?
Kurre mos pafshin drite xhihadistet e aq me pak terroristo-ekspansionistet-sioniste!

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Follow the money, where there is smokes there is fire.

Kta janë srvilat e israelit dhe cifutve amerikanë turqve dhe saudve. Sa morën pushtetin shitën Golem Heights pa asnjë luftë israelit. Sa ishin kundra luftuan me qeverinë e asadid që ndihmonte Palestinën dhe vet Hezbollah që luftonte për Palestinën. Kta stoogies dhe infiltrator që bën proxy war për hesap të israelit. Sira është një Irak tjetër që përfundoi në gërmadhë për hesap të israelit,
dhe tashmë po coptohet mes israelit, partnerve Turqisë, dhe ktyre terroristve. Msoni mga historia se qe Iraku, libia që kundërshtuan israelin.

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The high civilian death toll, the nature of the recorded wounds – for example, multiple gunshot or stabbing wounds – and the presence of 43 women, children, and elderly among the dead together indicate that opposition forces either intentionally or indiscriminately killed most of the remaining victims.



The scale and pattern of the serious abuses carried