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Nov 4, 2026

Laith MaroufGUEST
47:53
And somehow the Russian government had called him and his children to come and visit her for the last time before she passes away.
Laith MaroufGUEST
48:00
And then lo and behold, the invasion of the Wahhabi death squads from Idlib began and with, you know, Assad not being there.
Laith MaroufGUEST
48:14
So, you know, there was a deal made to hand over Syria and the Syrian military forces that defended the country and refused to follow up with this plan were slaughtered mercilessly.
AshwinHOST
48:34
In many ways, Operation Alexa Flood on October 7, 2023, which we're one week away from the three-year anniversary of Operation Alexa Flood and the genocide that followed.
Emily FengGUEST
10:52
They learn from al-Sharra.
Emily FengGUEST
10:54
They never officially join his coalition, but they look at the political reforms he's making to set up a functioning government in Idlib city.
Emily FengGUEST
11:01
which is where most Uyghurs in Syria still live in northern Syria.
Emily FengGUEST
11:06
And they start setting up their own schools, setting up social services and food delivery services, providing their own triage centers and medical centers.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
67:04
Because Turkey is a secular state and as jihadists, they shouldn't be aligning with it.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
67:07
Yet in Idlib, when they ruled the area and it faced regime and Iranian and Russian onslaught, they had to align with Turkey.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
67:14
So the people who opposed it, they were either jailed or sidelined or suddenly died in all sorts of interesting circumstances.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
67:21
So these individuals want power, and this is why they're seeking to not rely solely on Turkey.

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Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
94:50
Right, exactly.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
94:52
And this is why it's so natural for Israelis to be doubtful of this, right? That he is in any way different.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
95:00
The problem also that the deep changes that occurred within Hayat al-Tahrir al-Sham and the way that it governed Idlib occurred during a time that no one was interested in Syria, except me pretty much, in Israel.
Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
95:12
You know, very few people were writing about it.
Emily FengGUEST
9:14
They learn from al-Sharah.
Emily FengGUEST
9:15
They never officially join his coalition, but they look at the political reforms he's making to set up a functioning government in Idlib city, which is... where most Uyghurs in Syria still live in northern Syria.
Emily FengGUEST
9:28
And they start setting up their own schools, setting up social services and food delivery services, providing their own triage centers and medical centers.
Emily FengGUEST
9:37
And they say it was practice for the Uyghur state that they want to set up one day in Xinjiang, in the Xinjiang region that China now controls.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
7:07
TIP, the Syria branch of this nationalist Uyghur militant movement, was much more successful.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
7:13
They became highly disciplined and managed to remain organized, sharing scarce financial resources in self-sustaining communities in Idlib in northern Syria, and setting up robust social services for a growing Uyghur population that has now reached 20,000 men, women, and children.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
7:31
While TIP also maintained substantial links to al-Qaeda-affiliated groups, including with HTS, for years, these links later became problematic and internally divisive as TIP and HTS tried to brand themselves as politically more mainstream and welcoming to Syrians and Uyghurs of all castes.
Shayla LoveNARRATOR
7:49
Yet TIP remains controversial within Syria, and also within much of the Uyghur diaspora community, who view their militant past with distaste.
speaker_0NARRATOR
13:45
Russia was consumed by its war in Ukraine, and Hezbollah, Iran's proxy militia that had fought hard to keep Assad standing, had just been hammered by Israel in Lebanon.
speaker_0NARRATOR
13:55
So, when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist rebel group led by Ahmed al-Sharah, launched a surprise offensive out of its stronghold in Idlib on November 27, 2024, there was almost nobody left to stop them.
speaker_0NARRATOR
14:07
The rebel forces took Aleppo, Syria's second largest city, within days, along with dozens of villages and one of the regime's biggest military bases.
speaker_0NARRATOR
14:14
On December 5, they took Hamar.
speaker_0NARRATOR
15:09
He fought American forces in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, did time in a US military prison, and later founded al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's official branch in Syria.
speaker_0NARRATOR
15:19
For years, he went by the name Abu Muhammad al-Jalani, and the US put a $10 million bounty on his head.
speaker_0NARRATOR
15:25
In 2016, he cut ties with al-Qaeda, then rebranded his group as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in 2017, and spent close to seven years running a functioning mini-state in Idlib province, complete with ministries, courts, and a working bureaucracy.
speaker_0NARRATOR
15:39
Damascus was a different animal entirely.
Myles CagginsGUEST
19:12
Hopefully someday he'll be brought to true justice.
Myles CagginsGUEST
19:15
And Ahmad al-Shara, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, He had been waiting in Idlib, which is in the northwestern part of Syria.
Myles CagginsGUEST
19:23
His forces moved south into Damascus and took over and liberated Syria from the Assad regime on December 8th, 2024.
Myles CagginsGUEST
19:31
Since that time, The new government, it's formally called the Syrian transitional government, has been working to appoint and also elect officials for parliament, governors.
Trita ParsiGUEST
29:58
They're just doing it on a scale right now that is impossible to deny, including in Western conversations.
Mario NawfalHOST
30:06
And there were also that, and I wanted to mention one last thing, I'm sure you saw it, the explosion again, like Syria is just, just not getting time to breathe al-shara is just getting screwed time and time again that massive explosion stephanie we were showing it earlier at a munitions depot weapons depot in northern syria and idlib i'm assuming it's turkish military assets that were delivered to the syrian government the syrian military look how massive that is it's just wild it's non-stop in syria i wonder who that would be yeah i can never i can't figure it
Trita ParsiGUEST
30:38
out two points in this first of all, remember what the Israelis did immediately after Assad fell.
Trita ParsiGUEST
30:46
And they said it themselves on their TV.
Mario NawfalHOST
13:24
That country is not getting a fucking break.
Mario NawfalHOST
13:26
Massive explosion again at a weapons depot in Sarakik, Idlib region, northwest Syria.
Mario NawfalHOST
13:33
which near the Turkish border, I guess.
Mario NawfalHOST
13:35
Secondary explosions can be seen in the footage.
Karim ShamiHOST
70:11
So I want just to share something that happened now, but we will leave it to other time, which is I think next topic will be about that what's happening in Syria, all these bombings.
Karim ShamiHOST
70:21
Just now, there's a huge, huge bomb or explosion happened in Idlib in Syria.
Karim ShamiHOST
70:28
The gas pipes are being blown or their stockpiles of weapons are being blown.
Karim ShamiHOST
70:33
And even the government is not even accusing anybody.

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