Syria 2024 and beyond, under ISIS successor HTS
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I finally heard an explanation for what happened in Syria that makes sense to me.
Apparently, it was something of an externally paid -for coup.
The story is that Turkiye (and who knows who else, probably Qatar) were secretly paying off Syrian generals and field commanders not to fight. Turkiye and the Syrian army command ... and for all I know, higher political and civil service figures ... had been negotiating in secret for many months. Assad, his family, and some of the loyal Syrian pols and military, were kept in the dark and had no idea this was going on.
This explains why the Syrian army melted away, and why Assad, his family, and some commanders had to be evacuated.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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The Fall of the House of Assad
By Robert F. Worth | February 6, 2026, 9 AM ET
Robert F. Worth is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. A former bureau chief for The New York Times, he has spent more than two decades writing about the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. He is the author of A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, From Tahrir Square to ISIS, which won the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/02/assad-syria-regime-o
verthrow/685883/
Some dictators go down fighting. Some are lynched and strung up for their victims to spit on. Some die in bed.
Bashar al-Assad, who oversaw the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of his fellow Syrians during a quarter century in power, may have achieved something new in the annals of tyranny. As the rebels closed in on Damascus on December 7, 2024, Assad reassured his aides and subordinates that victory was near, and then fled in the night on a Russian jet, telling almost no one. I remember seeing a statement issued that same evening declaring that Assad was at the palace performing his “constitutional duties.” Some of his closest aides were fooled and had to escape the country however they could as rebel militias lit up the sky with celebratory gunfire.
Assad’s betrayal was so breathtakingly craven that some people had trouble believing it at first. When the facts became impossible to deny, the loyalty of thousands of people curdled almost instantly into fury. Many swore that they had always secretly hated him. There is an expression in Arabic for this kind of revisionist memory: When the cow falls, the butchers multiply.
But the emotion was real for many, as was the belief that Assad was solely responsible for everything that had gone wrong. “You can still find people who believe in Muammar Qaddafi, who believe in Saddam Hussein,” Ibrahim Hamidi, a Syrian journalist and editor, told me. “No one now believes in Bashar al-Assad, not even his brother.”
The sudden collapse of the Assad regime put an end to a cruel police state, but now there is virtually no Syrian state at all outside the capital. The country’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has done a superb job of charming Donald Trump and other world leaders. He is also an Islamist whose authority is tenuous, and whose country remains so dangerously volatile that it could easily descend into another war.
No one—not the CIA, not the Mossad—appears to have had any idea that Assad would fall so fast. But in the days and weeks afterward, an explanation for his regime’s collapse began to gain currency. Assad’s backers, Russia and Iran, had been drawn into other conflicts, with Ukraine and Israel respectively, and no longer had the ability to protect him. Their sudden withdrawal exposed what had been hidden in plain sight for years: the terrible weakness of an exhausted, corrupt, and underpaid army. A little like the American-backed regime in Afghanistan that fell in 2021, the Assad dynasty was the casualty of broader geopolitical realignments. After the fact, its fall came to seem inevitabl
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Moving suspected ISIS prisoners to Iraq shows Washington doesn’t fully trust Damascus, expert says
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/moving-suspected-isis-prisoners-ir
aq-145948003.html
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Moving suspected ISIS prisoners to Iraq shows Washington doesn’t fully trust Damascus, expert says
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/moving-suspected-isis-prisoners-ir
aq-145948003.html
Deport all Muslims to the middle of the ocean. Doesn't matter which one.
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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
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US counterterror chief quits saying 'Israel pressured Trump into Iran war'
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/us-counterterrorism-chief-quits-protest-1403
49837.html
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The ISIS defeat myth: No one talks about ISIS sympathizers and US military remaining in Syria
http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/370295-the-isis-defeat-my
th-no-one-talks-about-isis-sympathizers-and-us
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