Toot

Written by Earthworm on 2024-12-01 at 22:25

Players:

• Islamist/Turkyie-faction:

HTS (a rebranded al-Qaeda group, jihadist, but at least not Assad): After the yearlong siege and final fall of Aleppo, this group was confined the small region of Idlib in the north, now in a surprise attack HTS managed to re-conquer most parts of Aleppo from Assad's Syrian Army.

Erdogan is using islamist groups in Syria as proxies to put pressure on the Kurds.

• Assad/Putin/Iran/Hezbollah:

Assad depends on the military support by these three allies. All of them have lately problems of their own. Dictator Assad deserves his nickname "the butcher" totally (if there is any doubt).

• Kurds/Ezidi: The kurds, which are an opressed minority in Turkey, Syria, Irak and Iran, managed to build a very interesting model of democratic confederationalism in Rojava. Women are 50% of the decision makers, in the villages, there are three majors (kurdish, Syrian/arabic and another one depending on the local circumstances) in order to avoid conflicts.

While the administration and society in Rojava has many impressively progressive aspects, there are some conflicts with Arab Syrians. Because of the invasion by Turkish military and islamist mercenaries, the Kurds were forced to make some agreements with Assad.

Important to notice is that people in Aleppo are apparently happier under HTS rule than under Assad's. But the situation is complicated and volatile.

If you are looking for information to understand the complex events in Syria, I can recommend these:

@b9AcE

@ayoub

@ScottLucas

@fulelo

[#]Syria #Aleppo #SDF #HTS #Erdogan #Rojava

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