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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محسن رضایی: طی ۲ روز به ۲۵۰ نقطه در سوریه حمله شد دبیر شورای عالی هماهنگی سران سه قوه: 🔹آمریکا و اسرائیل با خویی فراتر از هیتلر به دنبال خاورمیانه جدید هستند. چرا تروریست‌ها در برابر تانک‌هایی که به ۲۰ کیلومتری دمشق رسیده اعتراضی نمی‌کنند؟ 🔹تروریست‌ها از شمال حمله کردند، اسرائیل از جنوب به ۲۰ کیلومتری دمشق رسیده و آمریکا در شرق سوریه در حال بمباران است. 🔹از سه نقطه به ملت و کشور سوریه حمله می‌شود. طی ۴۸ ساعت گذشته به ۲۵۰ نقطه در سوریه حمله شده و تمام هواپیماهای سوریه را منهدم کردند. 🔹تمام زیرساخت‌های سوریه و مراکز پژوهش نظامی آن را زده‌اند. @TasnimNews

نقشه آمریکا و اسرائیل برای حمله به عراق ▪️رضایی: چرا کشورهای منطقه از خواب بیدار نمی‌شوند؟ دبیر شورای عالی هماهنگی سران سه قوه: 🔹در شمال سوریه یک اردوگاه آمریکایی وجود دارد که ۱۱ هزار داعشی با خانواده‌های خود در این ۴ سال گذشته آموزش داده شده‌اند. 🔹احتمال دارد در ماه‌های آینده این‌ها به موصل یا تکریت عراق حمله کنند. @TasnimNews

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THE BEST OF FISK 6 December 1993: Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace Robert Fisk is the first western journalist to interview Osama bin Laden, ‘the Saudi businessman’ overseeing large-scale building work in Sudan https://www.the-independent.com/news/long_reads/robert-fisk-osama-bin-laden-interview-sudan-1993-b1562374.html ———————- Osama bin Laden sat in his gold-fringed robe, guarded by the loyal Arab mujahedin who fought alongside him in Afghanistan. Bearded, taciturn figures – unarmed, but never more than a few yards from the man who recruited them, trained them and then dispatched them to destroy the Soviet army – they watched unsmiling as the Sudanese villagers of Almatig lined up to thank the Saudi businessman who is about to complete the highway linking their homes to Khartoum for the first time in history. With his high cheekbones, narrow eyes and long brown robe, Mr bin Laden looks every inch the mountain warrior of mujahedin legend. Chadored children danced in front of him, preachers acknowledged his wisdom. “We have been waiting for this road through all the revolutions in Sudan,” a sheikh said. “We waited until we had given up on everybody – and then Osama bin Laden came along.”