Generation Jihad | Big Yikes in Syria, Part XXXVII
In Part 37 of Big Yikes in Syria, Bill Roggio and Ahmad Sharawi unpack yet another round of bad alliances and strategic failure in the war-torn country.
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Generation Jihad | Shilling for Sharaa
Ahmad Sharawi is back with Bill Roggio to discuss the ongoing spectacle of Syrian interim President and former Al Qaeda member Ahmed al Sharaa, from massacres whitewashed and sanctions lifted with no conditions to foreign fighters handed Syrian citizenship — in its rush to embrace him, is the West willfully ignoring Sharaa’s blood-soaked past?
US strike in northwestern Syria kills Islamic State’s external attack planner
As the US continues to reduce its military footprint in Syria, US Central Command launched an airstrike that killed Rakhim Boev, who it identified as “a Syria-based ISIS official who was involved in planning external operations threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and civilians.”
Syrian military integrates Al Qaeda-linked terror group into its ranks
The Turkistan Islamic Party’s branch in Syria, an Al Qaeda ally, is being integrated into the new Syrian military as the 84th Division. The group’s leader, Abdul Haq al Turkistani, sits on Al Qaeda’s central governing council and directs the group’s operations in Syria. Despite this, the Trump administration is poised to lift sanctions on Syria.
President Trump meets with a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, lifts sanctions on Syria
US President Donald Trump met with Syrian interim president Ahmad al Sharaa, a US and UN-designated terrorist and the former leader of Al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, and committed to removing US sanctions on Syria.