March 27, 2016 In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA Featuring: Nicholas Heras Source: Los Angeles Times Journalist: Nabih Bulos yrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter five-year-old civil war. The fighting has intensified over the last two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other while maneuvering through contested territory on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, U.S. officials and rebel leaders have confirmed. Read the full article at Los Angeles Times.

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Assad Was Disengaging From Iran, but His Next Steps Are Unclear In Damascus, it has recently felt like change was afoot, and after the fall of Aleppo anything could happen Rasha Elass is Editorial Director at New Lines magazineDecember 3, 2024 No one expected the swift rebel takeover of Aleppo when I was visiting Damascus last month, though almost everyone I met there seemed to think that “something was cooking.” And during my short sojourn, I felt that, too. For starters, nothing about life in Damascus has felt coherent or sustainable since relative quiet befell the country in 2020. Inflation is so high that I found myself having to help relatives not so much carry groceries from the store, but carry the heavy bags of cash required for them to run their daily lives. The Syrian lira trades at about 1.5 million for every 100 U.S. dollars, and a trip to the food market can cost almost as much as a trip to the supermarket in the U.S. — except in Syria the average salary of a government employee, say a judge, is barely $40 per month. The wealth disparity has been sending grandmothers and children dumpster diving, while a restaurant that serves sushi can be packed with patrons ordering more food than they can eat.

Assad’s Plan To Keep Syria Out of the War in Gaza Amid Israel’s conflict with Hamas and its allies, Damascus has taken a series of steady steps to mend ties with its former enemies Hassan Hassan is Founder and Editor in Chief of New Lines magazineSeptember 27, 2024 September last year, an event on the Syrian border signaled the possibility of Iranian-backed forces opening a new front against Israel in Syria — yet, in a surprising turn, that front has remained quiet for the past year during the war in Gaza. Israeli tanks responded to Syrian troop deployments by striking two military structures inside Syria. Israeli authorities claimed the structures had been built in a demilitarized border zone that was established by a 1974 agreement between the two countries. This attack went largely unnoticed at the time, but in hindsight it is intriguing for two main reasons. First, Israel did not respond in the same way to similar military reinforcements in 2011, when the Syrian military deployed troops, airplanes and tanks close to the Israeli border. At a 1974 summit in Geneva, the two countries agreed on a demilitarized “area of separation” along the border, and a further “area of limitation” within 25 kilometers in either direction, restricting military strength in the zone to small, lightly armed forces. The 2011 Syrian deployment, intended to quell a nascent uprising, encompassed l

Al-Assad’s Strategy to Avoid Becoming a Puppet of Russia and Iran by Abdullah Al-Ghadhawi / March 11, 2021 / State Resilience & Fragility⠀/Authoritarianism / Recent moves by Bashar al-Assad in the security sphere show the embattled Syrian president still has cards to play to preserve his power, despite having sacrificed much influence to Iran and Russia to secure his regime’s survival in the civil war. Despite everything being said about the Syrian president’s weakness and inability to manage the country alone, he is still holding on to power despite the encroachment of his Russian and Iranian allies and, as his late father did, exploiting the regime’s secret weapon: the security services and their sectarian structure. This has proven to be the key to preserving the core of the regime and ensuring al-Assad’s survival...

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