Guerre Civile et Rébellion En Syrie 🇸🇾

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Une attaque de drone a ciblé samedi le bâtiment de l'administration provinciale à Alep, dans le nord-ouest de la Syrie, peu après que l'armée syrienne a annoncé l'arrêt des opérations militaires dans le quartier à majorité kurde de Sheikh Maqsoud, selon la télévision syrienne.


Drone attack hits Aleppo government building amid ongoing clashes
A drone attack struck Aleppo’s provincial administration building amid ongoing Aleppo clashes. The SDF denied targeting civilians as tensions with Syrian forces rise. By Al Mayadeen English - Source: Agencies - Today 19:23

A drone attack targeted the provincial administration building in Aleppo, northwestern Syria, on Saturday, shortly after the Syrian army announced a halt to military operations in the Kurdish-majority neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsoud, according to Syria TV.
The reported attack occurred minutes after a press conference concluded, which was attended by the governor of Aleppo and Syria’s minister of information.

Media reports attributed the strike to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), though the group denied involvement. In a statement, the SDF said it had not carried out any attacks on civilian sites.
The incident comes amid renewed tension in northern Syria, where Kurdish rebels have frequently clashed with Syrian government forces and affiliated groups.



The Kurdish-majority Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo has long been a flashpoint in the broader Syrian conflict, particularly between the Syrian government and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Although relatively calm in recent years, renewed military operations have reignited tensions.
Syrian forces had launched limited strikes in late December and further military operations this month before declaring a ceasefire that was later rejected by the SDF.
The SDF, which includes Kurdish, Arab, and Assyrian fighters, has maintained de facto control over several regions in northern and eastern Syria since its formation during the US-led campaign against ISIS. While the group claims its forces are focused on counter-terrorism and local governance, Damascus has repeatedly accused the SDF of collaborating with US forces to divide Syria, a claim echoed in statements by the Syrian Foreign Ministry.

Drone warfare has increasingly become a tactic in Syria’s northern front. Armed groups, including both opposition factions and Kurdish rebels, have used drones for reconnaissance and targeted strikes. According to a 2023 report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), drone usage has increased significantly, particularly in contested areas like Aleppo, Hasakah, and Deir ez-Zor. Syrian state outlets and allied media have accused Kurdish factions of utilizing drones in recent escalations, though the SDF has publicly denied targeting civilian infrastructure.


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[Spartan]

l'heure du jugement est venu pour les kurdes.
ils ont la punition adéquates apres des années de traîtrise,d'extorsion et de provocations contre la Syrie et l'Iran.
no regrets mr baghzani

[Shilka]

l'heure du jugement est venu pour les kurdes.
ils ont la punition adéquates apres des années de traîtrise,d'extorsion et de provocations contre la Syrie et l'Iran.
no regrets mr baghzani

Ils ont était lâchement abandonner à leur sort, pourtant Bashar et Nasrallah leur avait dit à l’époque, il vont vous utiliser et vous jeté pareil pour les bédouin du Golf, mais les idiot le comprenne qu’après coup malheureusement, tempi pour eux l’histoire avance et s’écrit.

[Shilka]

Les kurde on le choix entre daesh et al qaida Bashar doit se régaler avec du popcorns.

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Perpetual cycle of abandonment: Washington abandons SDF in Syria

By Mohammad Khazem
Source: Al Mayadeen English
21 Jan 2026 23:59


The United States is shifting away from longtime allies, from Kurdish forces in Syria to US-backed opposition figures in Venezuela and Iran, highlighting a recurring pattern of strategic abandonment.



"The original purpose of the SDF as the primary anti-ISIS force on the ground has largely expired."

With these words, US Special Envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack, announced the end of the SDF's term alongside the United States in Syria.

This reflects that the United States is effectively abandoning its longtime Kurdish partner in Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to Tom Barrack, US Special Envoy to Syria. In a statement shared on social media, Barrack outlined how the US is facilitating a historic transition of power to the new Syrian government under President Ahmad al-Sharaa, sidelining the SDF's demands and goals.
:Barrack emphasized that the SDF, which had been the US’ primary ground partner in Syria, is now transferring control of key areas like the al-Hol ISIS detention camp and strategic sites like al-Shaddadi to Damascus. “The integration deal signed on January 18 provides a clear pathway for SDF fighters to join the national army and for Syria to reclaim authority over infrastructure and security responsibilities,” Barrack said.

The envoy stressed that US forces will not maintain a long-term military presence in the region. “Our focus is on defeating ISIS remnants, supporting reconciliation, and advancing national unity, without endorsing separatism,” Barrack added. The United States is now prioritizing diplomacy over boots on the ground, Barrack noted, leaving the Kurds to negotiate directly with the Syrian government.

Highlighting a shift in rationale "for the US-SDF partnership," the US envoy maintained that "the original purpose of the SDF as the primary anti-ISIS force on the ground has largely expired," undermining the role of the group after years of cooperation.

Furthermore, Barrack framed this shift as a "historic opportunity" for Syria’s Kurdish population: full citizenship rights, recognition of Kurdish language and culture, and participation in governance, rights allegedly long denied under Bashar al-Assad’s regime. However, he acknowledged the risks, including fragile ceasefires, occasional clashes, and the challenge of integrating former SDF fighters into national forces.
Oil and control: How the SDF aided the US

The United States began working with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in late 2015, initially supplying weapons and coordinating air support against ISIS. The partnership grew from operational necessity, as the SDF, led mainly by the Kurdish YPG, was already organized and capable of holding territory. Other Syrian militant groups were fragmented or linked to extremist factions, making them unreliable partners.

Central to Washington's choice, however, is that the SDF's area of control included Deir Ezzor, al-Hasakah, and Rumeilan, where the majority of Syria's oil lies. The SDF helped the United States secure these oil-rich territories, keeping them under US influence and away from rivals, including the Syrian government at the time.

This influence gave Washington a strategic advantage in diplomatic and economic negotiations, considering that keeping the fields under the control of a regional ally transforms the resource into a powerful political tool.

From 2017 onward, the United States began officially supplying arms, training, and logistical support to the SDF. US special operations forces were embedded with the SDF, enabling coordinated campaigns such as the Raqqa offensive in 2017. The partnership also included intelligence sharing, airstrike coordination, and operational planning, which amplified the SDF’s effectiveness against ISIS. These efforts helped the SDF capture major ISIS strongholds and reduce the group’s territorial control.

Financially, the US has consistently supported the SDF through Pentagon budgets and the Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund. Recent allocations include approximately $156 million in FY 2024, $147.9 million in FY 2025, and $130 million in FY 2026, totalling a whopping 433.9 million USD.
How SDF control of Syria’s oil fields advanced US strategic interests

The SDF’s control over much of eastern Syria’s oil fields has helped the United States on several levels—strategic, economic, and military:

Economic leverage and pressure: It denied the Syrian government access to a major source of revenue, limiting Damascus’ ability to fund reconstruction or pay salaries. This economic pressure aligned with broader US sanctions and containment policies.

Sustaining a local partner: Oil revenues generated in SDF-held areas helped fund the SDF’s own administration and security forces. This reduced Washington’s need to directly bankroll its partner while maintaining influence on the ground with a relatively small US troop presence.

Smuggling oil into Iraq for US forces: The Syrian government has repeatedly accused the SDF and US forces of smuggling Syrian oil into Iraq, including toward areas hosting US military bases. These reports describe oil being transported via convoys and informal border crossings, turning Syrian oil into a logistical and economic asset that benefited US operations in Iraq. While the US denies illegal activity, the accusations highlight how control of the oil fields was seen as directly linked to US regional military infrastructure.

Political bargaining power: Holding Syria’s energy resources outside government control, under the SDF's watchful eyes, gave Washington leverage in any future political negotiations, allowing it to influence outcomes without large-scale military escalation.

Overall, SDF control of Syria’s oil fields was not just about local security or counter-ISIS efforts; it also served broader US strategic interests, including economic pressure, reduced costs of partnership, and the redirection of oil toward US-linked facilities in Iraq.

However, with the toppling of the al-Assad regime and the rising alliance between the United States and the interim Syrian government under al-Sharaa, the SDF is now simply obsolete in Washington's eyes.
US commitment issues

Barrack's announcement is reminiscent of several historical instances where the United States simply abandoned its allies amid shifts in strategic goals, interests, and even presidents.

One of the starkest precedents illustrating Uncle Sam's commitment issues lies in the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, when US forces swiftly pulled out of the country, leaving the Afghan government, local troops, and security forces, which had long cooperated with Washington, vulnerable in the face of the Taliban.

After former President Joe Biden announced in April 2021 that Washington would withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11 of the same year, the Taliban swiftly swept through provinces one by one in the early weeks of August. By August 15, the Taliban entered Kabul with very little resistance, two weeks before the last US military flight departed from the country on August 30, 12 days before the official deadline announced by Biden.
Strategic goals over anything else

In the wake of the last flight, Afghan allies of the United States were abandoned in the airports and left to fight the Taliban on their own, highlighting a cruel indifference: Washington prioritized meeting its withdrawal timelines over the safety of its allies. The chaos that unfolded at that time serves as a reminder of how quickly the United States can abandon its allies once its strategic needs shift.

The center of this withdrawal revolved around a redirection of resources toward other challenges faced by Washington. Former President Biden justified the US withdrawal by stating that the “world was changing," emphasizing that the country was “engaged in a serious competition with China.”

Then-Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stated during a September 12, 2021 congressional hearing, “If 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in support, equipment, and training did not suffice, why would another year, or five, or ten, make a difference?”, while arguing that adversaries such as China and Russia would have preferred the US to remain bogged down indefinitely in Afghanistan, thereby diverting American focus from great‑power competition and other strategic priorities.
Shifting presidents, shifting interests, shifty alliances

Take the case of Greenland, for example. It frames the reliability of the United States as an ally as questionable at best; as Washington shuffles presidents, even a cornerstone transatlantic alliance could be tested to its limits.

The United States has most recently created a rift between itself and Europe, a historical ally of the United States, which keeps growing amid Trump's sustained, aggressive push to take over Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory under Denmark.

In early 2025, Trump expressed his interest in Greenland for its location and vast wealth of resources ranging from rare earth elements like neodymium to oil and gas; two resources Trump has repeatedly lauded with the mantra "We will drill, baby, drill." As for its location, the US president has repeatedly emphasized that Greenland is essential to Washington's national security in the face of "threats" from China and Russia.

Early on, leaders from Greenland and Denmark affirmed that the region is "not for sale", with Danish PM Mette Frederiksen holding a "heated phone call" with Trump on January 16, 2025, in which she emphasized that the future of the island must be decided by its inhabitants.

Since then, Europe has been trying to strike a balance between appeasing Trump while preserving the alliance with the United States despite whatever measures they decide to take in response; however, Trump's repeated refusal to rule out using the military option to take over the island has kept the entire continent on its tiptoes.
Trump ups the ante, Europe fires back

By January 2026, tensions between the United States and Europe over Greenland had escalated to a near‑crisis level. On January 17-18, Trump announced plans to impose a 10 percent tariff on goods from eight European and NATO countries, including Denmark, Sweden, France, and Germany, starting February 1, 2026, with the rate scheduled to rise to 25 percent on June 1 if no agreement on Greenland was reached.

Senior members of the European Parliament’s international trade committee are set to suspend ratification of the Turnberry deal on January 21 after the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) called for a pause, citing Donald Trump’s threats over Greenland.

Manfred Weber said the EPP supports the EU–US trade deal, but approval “is not possible at this stage,” while Socialists, centrists, and Greens had already urged a hold over the same issue.
Trump's 'new colonialism'

European leaders have condemned Trump’s “new colonialism” as tensions over Greenland escalate. French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, criticized Trump’s “useless aggressivity” and said he preferred “respect to bullies” and the “rule of law to brutality.”

Macron accused the US of trying to “weaken and subordinate Europe” through demands for “maximum concessions” and tariffs used as leverage against territorial sovereignty, while Trump vowed the US would take control of Greenland “one way or the other.”

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Trump’s threat of a 10% tariff on imports from several European countries “a mistake” and stressed that “when friends shake hands, it must mean something,” referring to last July’s EU–US trade deal.

Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever said Europe is “at a crossroads” and must defend its dignity, warning that crossing too many red lines would undermine democracy, while von der Leyen added that the EU’s response would be “unflinching, united and proportional” if necessary.
Sidelined: The cases of Pahlavi and Machado

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria-Corina Machado emerged as a popular figure and close ally of Trump during his campaign against Venezuela, which culminated in the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Machado seemed to be en route to becoming Washington's first pick as a leader to succeed Maduro: she repeatedly applauded Trump's campaign against Venezuela, praised and expressed gratitude for the military operation that kidnapped Maduro, and even presented her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump during a White House meeting in mid-January.

However, hours after Maduro's capture, Trump sidelined Machado as an option to lead Venezuela, saying that she lacked the necessary "support" and "respect" in her own country, instead favoring the current interim president and Maduro's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, whom he described as “someone we’ve worked with very well."

Another similar case is Reza Pahlavi, son of the exiled Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The monarchist held a secret meeting with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff between January 11 and 12 to discuss the riots in Iran unfolding at the time, a senior US official told Axios on January 14.

However, Trump quickly questioned Pahlavi's political viability, suggesting that while he was "very nice", he did not have enough support inside Iran to assume leadership in the case of a government collapse.

Trump’s administration often praises opposition figures but shifts support based on strategy rather than loyalty. Machado was welcomed at the White House, then sidelined, while Pahlavi never received full backing, raising doubts about how reliable US support really is once priorities change.

This makes one thing clear: the United States abandoning one of its key allies in the Middle East in favor of its own strategic goals and interests was inevitable. History shows that the US frequently abandons allies when political calculations change, leaving local partners exposed to risks and power vacuums. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/pol ... s-sdf-in-s

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Les kurdes n'ont toujours pas compris qu'ils e sot qu'une variable d'ajustement les Yankees se sot servi d'eux et maintenant ils les lâchent et c'est bie fait pour eux tant qu'ils travaillent contre leurs voisins c'est tout ce qu'ils auront en plus qu'on le veuille ou nous le gouvernement actuel est le gouvernement légal de Syrie doc ils ont tout à fait raison de reprendre le contrôle de leurs territoires c'est ce qui a échappé à assad qui n'a pas voulu réellement les combattre

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Les kurdes n'ont toujours pas compris qu'ils e sot qu'une variable d'ajustement les Yankees se sot servi d'eux et maintenant ils les lâchent et c'est bie fait pour eux tant qu'ils travaillent contre leurs voisins c'est tout ce qu'ils auront en plus qu'on le veuille ou nous le gouvernement actuel est le gouvernement légal de Syrie doc ils ont tout à fait raison de reprendre le contrôle de leurs territoires c'est ce qui a échappé à assad qui n'a pas voulu réellement les combattre

Assad ne pouvais rien faire à l’époque, il était déjà en conflit avec Daesh et HTC, et les Kurde était sous la protection des Américain qui les ont utiliser pour bloquer le pétrole Syrien et le contrôle de la frontière terrestre entre la Syrie et l'Irak qui voyer des renfort arriver (milice chiite).
Les Kurde ont servi de bloqueur pour que Bashar ne reprend pas le pétrole et le contrôle de la frontière, tant que les Américain les protéger il était intouchable, maintenant que le gouvernement actuel est devenu le gouvernement légitime et surtout qu'il s'entend avec les USA? Il ferme les yeux et le laisse prendre le contrôle de ces région, il n'aurai jamais pu faire ça si les Américains serai encore sur place et qui l'en dissuaderai.

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Comme ce journaliste l'a déjà révélé, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) a été préparé pendant des années avant son coup d'État violent par Inter-Mediate, une société de conseil liée au MI6 et dirigée par Jonathan Powell, conseiller à la sécurité nationale du Premier ministre britannique Keir Starmer. Inter-Mediate dispose depuis lors d'un bureau dédié au sein du palais présidentiel syrien. Starmer s'est félicité de la chute de Bachar el-Assad, y voyant une occasion pour Londres de « jouer un rôle plus présent et plus constant dans toute la région ». Ce plan est désormais mis en œuvre.

Leaked: How MI6 infiltrated ISIS refugee camps

Kit Klarenberg Kit Klarenberg - Source: Al Mayadeen English - Today

HTS was groomed for years prior to its violent palace coup by Inter-Mediate, an MI6-linked consulting firm run by Jonathan Powell, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s national security advisor.


Since January 13, the newly reconstituted Syrian Arab Army has torn across North East Syria. It marks a brutal end to an autonomous region - typically referred to as Rojava - effectively governed by the US-backed, Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces for over a decade. While a Washington-brokered ceasefire agreement provides for the SDF’s integration into Damascus’ Western-appointed government, the de facto HTS-controlled SAA shows every sign of seeking to permanently erase and neutralize every trace of Rojava.

Civilians and SDF fighters have been slaughtered since the region’s takeover. The SAA has been assisted in this massacre by former inmates of local detention centres, among them a profusion of former ISIS butchers. These facilities were created in 2019 to accommodate the population of the territory once claimed by the Islamic State and today house tens of thousands of people. Markedly, government forces specifically targeted the prisons when their assault on Rojava commenced, strongly suggesting igniting mass jailbreaks locally was a deliberate objective.
Depuis le 13 janvier, l'Armée arabe syrienne (AAS), nouvellement reconstituée, ravage le nord-est de la Syrie. Ceci marque la fin brutale d'une région autonome, généralement appelée Rojava, de facto gouvernée depuis plus d'une décennie par les Forces démocratiques syriennes (FDS), soutenues par les États-Unis et dominées par les Kurdes. Bien qu'un accord de cessez-le-feu négocié par Washington prévoie l'intégration des FDS au sein du gouvernement de Damas nommé par l'Occident, l'AAS, contrôlée de facto par Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), semble déterminée à éradiquer définitivement le Rojava.

Depuis la prise de contrôle de la région, des civils et des combattants des FDS sont massacrés. L'AAS a été aidée dans ce massacre par d'anciens détenus des centres de détention locaux, parmi lesquels de nombreux anciens combattants de l'État islamique. Ces centres, créés en 2019 pour accueillir la population du territoire autrefois revendiqué par l'État islamique, abritent aujourd'hui des dizaines de milliers de personnes. Il est à noter que les forces gouvernementales ont spécifiquement ciblé les prisons lors de leur offensive contre le Rojava, ce qui laisse fortement penser que provoquer des évasions massives de prisonniers au niveau local était un objectif délibéré.
Rojava’s ISIS refugee camps posed a complex and seemingly irresolvable problem for the autonomous territory. Inhabitants could only be repatriated with the consent of their home country’s government, which in many cases refused. The al-Hol camp proved particularly problematic. Housing exclusively women and children, many detainees were the wives, sons, and daughters of Islamic State fighters. The former, in some cases, never renounced their commitment to ISIS, while the latter are stateless.

A September 2019 Washington Post report painted a horrifying picture of al-Hol as a “cauldron of radicalization," in which hardcore ISIS adherents enforced the group’s strictures upon the wider population through brutal violence, including murder. SDF guards could do nothing but attempt to “contain” offenders physically, while the Islamic State’s extremist ideology spread “uncontested”, with tens of thousands of children a literally “captive audience”. The facility was struck by the SAA on January 20, sending clusters of its captives and the SDF fleeing.

Al-Hol is now under government control, and the fate of its approximately 30,000 inhabitants remains uncertain. However, there are grounds to believe the camp’s population has been primed in advance to expect, and welcome, the arrival of Ahmed al-Sharaa’s forces. Leaked documents reviewed by Al Mayadeen English expose how The Global Strategy Network, a psychological warfare specialist founded and staffed by British intelligence veterans, has maintained a secret presence in al-Hol for years, covertly perpetuating British government-approved propaganda messaging every step of the way.

The putative Syrian government’s destruction of Rojava significantly consolidates its hold on power nationally. The SDF occupied territory home to the country’s primary oil- and wheat-producing areas, seizure of which provides a sizeable windfall. There is moreover zero prospect of a breakaway Kurdish state emerging, which the territory’s leaders had repeatedly mooted following HTS’ December 2024 capture of Damascus. These developments will be warmly greeted throughout Western corridors of power - first and foremost, perhaps, London.

As this journalist has previously exposed, HTS was groomed for years prior to its violent palace coup by Inter-Mediate, an MI6-linked consulting firm run by Jonathan Powell, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s national security advisor. Inter-Mediate has maintained a dedicated office within Syria’s Presidential Palace ever since. Starmer cheered Bashar Assad’s fall as an opportunity for London to “play a more present and consistent role throughout the region.” That plan is now being put into action.

‘Moderate version’

The leaked files show that Global Strategy began constructing a psychological warfare infrastructure within al-Hol almost immediately upon its founding, in the wake of the Islamic State’s formal March 2019 defeat. Contrary to mainstream reports that the SDF had comprehensively crushed ISIS, the documents note the group continued to conduct “operations” against “military and intelligence assets” in Rojava. This meant “Daesh remains a clear and present danger” locally, “continuing to deploy acts of violence against an ever-expanding list of adversaries.”

There were other issues making Global Strategy’s mission difficult and deeply dangerous. As “Daesh proactively involved women in both its civilian administration and military operations,” this meant the Islamic State was “able to wield significant influence in al-Hol, in spite of its wider loss of formal territorial control, by using the ‘true believers’...to proselytise and enforce on its behalf.” The “spectrum” of residents spanning “active Daesh supporters” to those “actively victimised by Daesh” was also said to be “highly complex and unclear.”

Moreover, ISIS bombarded detainees with propaganda, while exploiting al-Hol “as a critical element of its wider communications,” supporting “proactive and aggressive outreach around the issue.” Some Daesh-distributed imagery juxtaposed “poor living conditions” in the camp “with nostalgic recollections of the ‘golden age’ of the Daesh proto-state.” ISIS leaders also frequently made public statements about al-Hol, calling the camp’s existence “the worst and most important matter” while urging their supporters “to free [the] sisters and tear down the walls restricting them.”

Despite this, Global Strategy boasted of its ability to maintain a “full-time team presence” in al-Hol and beam relentless propaganda to inmates via the infrastructure of Wa estern-funded local radio station ARTA. The intelligence cutout pledged to create a trio of “media centres” throughout the camp, combining “communications and community-based activities,” which would serve as “gathering spaces”. There, detainees could cook food, drink tea, and socialize, as their children enjoyed a dedicated play area, and varied Global Strategy-concocted programming was broadcast all day.

This included a “morning show…a multi-segment programme focusing on the camp’s problems and concerns and the work of aid agencies and civil society organisations in the camp, with entertainment breaks and useful community information.” In the afternoons, “a lighter socio-cultural and entertainment programme focusing on local popular culture, as well as useful community information, with entertainment breaks (quizzes, song dedications, horoscopes, etc.)” was transmitted. “Religious” shows were a regular staple too.

These broadcasts “focused on different questions in Islam and its relation to society,” promoting “a moderate version of Islam” and challenging “extremist ideas and practices, during which moderate local religious figures will be hosted as guests.” Children were considered key targets, with educational programmes providing “accessible and engaging classes in literacy, sciences, literature and history, mixed with entertainment breaks and games.” Vast sums were surreptitiously sunk into this project by British intelligence, without any public oversight or cognisance whatsoever.

‘HTS domination’

The stated goal of Global Strategy’s clandestine operation in al-Hol was deradicalization. To call the effort a failure would be an understatement. From the camp’s creation until the present day, regular media and think tank reports warned al-Hol was a key nucleus for the “resurgence” of ISIS. An April 2025 Frankfurt Peace Institute investigation referred to young boys housed at the camp as a “human reservoir” for the Islamic State’s “Cubs of the Caliphate” program, via which they were trained in the art of killing.

This begs the obvious question of whether Global Strategy’s objective was truly to counter extremism. The firm’s psychological warfare initiatives have a disquieting tendency to not only actively assist ISIS, but also produce the precise opposite effect of that formally intended. For years, Global Strategy managed wide-ranging efforts to “undermine” HTS in the areas of Syria it dominated. However, in leaked documents, the firm acknowledged these initiatives were actively assisting HTS’ “growing influence” in Syria.

Resultantly, many Syrians regarded HTS as “synonymous with opposition to Assad.” It is surely no coincidence that in September 2025, former-MI6 chief Richard Moore admitted his agency had courted HTS for years prior to its seizure of Damascus. This clandestine bond was struck despite British intelligence being under no illusions that mainstream accounts of the group’s split from al-Qaeda were fantasy. A leaked 2020 Foreign Office file noted “HTS domination” actively provided “space for [al-Qaeda]-aligned groups and individuals to exist” in the country.

This peaceful coexistence reportedly provided “space” for al-Qaeda to “maintain an instability fuelled safe haven…from which they are able to train and prepare for future expansion” outside Syria. This begs the obvious question of whether Global Strategy’s actual aim in al-Hol was to convert detainees to the ‘right’ kind of militancy, from the perspective of British intelligence. The cutout’s unparalleled reach into the camp could easily have been exploited to prepare inmates for the day al-Sharaa’s forces liberated them.

Either way, Syria’s al-Qaeda-affiliated government has now been granted a vast “human reservoir” of grateful former inmates, who could be called upon to assist in brutal crackdowns on internal dissent, massacres of Alawites and other ethnic and religious minorities, and more widely shoring up an ideal Anglo-American puppet state locally. It is not for nothing that Damascus was granted a greenlight to capture Rojava at US-mediated talks with "Israel" in Paris in early January, where al-Sharaa signed a locally despised accord with the Zionist entity.
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect Al Mayadeen’s editorial stance.

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[Shilka]

Aya ttabag !!!!

[AT 15 KHRYZANTEMA]

Se n'était qu'une question de temps ...

[opmega]

J'aimerai bien voir la tronche de cet enfoiré de Mazloum Abdi....il jouait les gros bras du temps de Hafez...Là comme lui avait dit le président syrien légitime, tu seras vendu...et ça n'a pas râté !! plus d'aviation US ni de troupes et sa pseudo rojava est tombée comme un fruit pourri...le karma

[Shilka]

J'aimerai bien voir la tronche de cet enfoiré de Mazloum Abdi....il jouait les gros bras du temps de Hafez...Là comme lui avait dit le président syrien légitime, tu seras vendu...et ça n'a pas râté !! plus d'aviation US ni de troupes et sa pseudo rojava est tombée comme un fruit pourri...le karma

La pour le coup c'est clairement le Karma, franchement j'ai du respect pour les combattante Kurde, je trouve ces femmes très courageuse beaucoup plus que pas mal d'hommes dans certain pays , des lâche qui laisse leur pays et vienne faire les thug sur les réseau.
C'est vraiment dommage que leur imbécile de dirigeant les ont conduit sur cette fausse routes, s'il serait resté unis il n'aurai pas eux ce genre de probleme et la Syrie aurai tenu et gagnée, mais bon, quand ta des gens comme sa qui te tourne le dos, plus des allié qui joue contre toi derrière ton dos, ben le match est injouable...

@At-15: Oui c'etait prévisible, Cukine avait de l'influence en Syrie, Erdogan devait composé avec cuckine, mainteannt Cukine doit demander la permission à Erdogan et il va quand même dégager...