Syria

Israel, not the ‘liberators’ of Damascus, will decide Syria’s fate Syria’s future under al-Qaeda spin-off HTS will come in two flavours only. Either submit and collude like the West Bank, or end up wrecked like Gaza By: Jonathan Cook Dec 18, 2024 There has been a flurry of “What next for Syria?” articles in the wake of Bashar al-Assad’s hurried exit from Syria and the takeover of much of the country by al-Qaeda’s rebranded local forces. Western governments and media have been quick to celebrate the success of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), even though the group is designated a terrorist organisation in the United States, Britain and much of Europe. Back in 2013, the US even placed a £10 million bounty on its leader, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, for his involvement with al-Qa...

Posted by: John Phoenix The collapse of the government of Bashar al-Assad is a grave setback for anti-imperialist forces from which we must learn. Proletarian writers 12 December 2024 Subscribe to our  channel While Israel and Turkey had clear and deep involvement in the operation that broke the back of a Syrian regime that proved to have been slowly rotting from within, the ultimate architects of the siege, terrorise, divide and occupy strategy were the US imperialists, enthusiastically assisted by their British counterparts for nearly 14 years of dirty warfare. The resignation of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the handing over of Damascus to US-backed terror gangs is a victory for US imperialism. The Anglo-American imperialists have long sought to subju...