Idlib
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Nov 4, 2026
The Rise and Fall of the Syrian Arab Republic: An Anti-Imperialist Perspective (w/ Laith Marouf)
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47:53Laith MaroufGUEST
And somehow the Russian government had called him and his children to come and visit her for the last time before she passes away.
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48:00Laith MaroufGUEST
And then lo and behold, the invasion of the Wahhabi death squads from Idlib began and with, you know, Assad not being there.
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48:14Laith MaroufGUEST
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.
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48:34AshwinHOST
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.
The Uyghurs found fighting in Syria, plus the Sally Rooney censorship furore
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10:52Emily FengGUEST
They learn from al-Sharra.
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10:54Emily FengGUEST
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.
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11:01Emily FengGUEST
which is where most Uyghurs in Syria still live in northern Syria.
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11:06Emily FengGUEST
And they start setting up their own schools, setting up social services and food delivery services, providing their own triage centers and medical centers.
158: How do you defeat Iran's proxy armies? With Elizabeth Tsurkov
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67:04Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
Because Turkey is a secular state and as jihadists, they shouldn't be aligning with it.
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67:07Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
Yet in Idlib, when they ruled the area and it faced regime and Iranian and Russian onslaught, they had to align with Turkey.
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67:14Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
So the people who opposed it, they were either jailed or sidelined or suddenly died in all sorts of interesting circumstances.
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67:21Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
So these individuals want power, and this is why they're seeking to not rely solely on Turkey.
27 MINS LATER
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94:50Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
Right, exactly.
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94:52Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
And this is why it's so natural for Israelis to be doubtful of this, right? That he is in any way different.
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95:00Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
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.
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95:12Elizabeth TsurkovGUEST
You know, very few people were writing about it.
Why were Uyghurs fighting in Syria's civil war?
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9:14Emily FengGUEST
They learn from al-Sharah.
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9:15Emily FengGUEST
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.
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9:28Emily FengGUEST
And they start setting up their own schools, setting up social services and food delivery services, providing their own triage centers and medical centers.
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9:37Emily FengGUEST
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.
The Uyghurs Who Fought in Syria’s Civil War
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7:07Shayla LoveNARRATOR
TIP, the Syria branch of this nationalist Uyghur militant movement, was much more successful.
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7:13Shayla LoveNARRATOR
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.
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7:31Shayla LoveNARRATOR
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.
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7:49Shayla LoveNARRATOR
Yet TIP remains controversial within Syria, and also within much of the Uyghur diaspora community, who view their militant past with distaste.
The New Syria is Already Steeped in Blood.
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13:45speaker_0NARRATOR
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.
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13:55speaker_0NARRATOR
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.
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14:07speaker_0NARRATOR
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.
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14:14speaker_0NARRATOR
On December 5, they took Hamar.
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15:09speaker_0NARRATOR
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.
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15:19speaker_0NARRATOR
For years, he went by the name Abu Muhammad al-Jalani, and the US put a $10 million bounty on his head.
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15:25speaker_0NARRATOR
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.
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15:39speaker_0NARRATOR
Damascus was a different animal entirely.
Oct 31, 2026 - COL Myles Caggins - Mass Protests in Europe & Dangerous Influences in Syria
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19:12Myles CagginsGUEST
Hopefully someday he'll be brought to true justice.
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19:15Myles CagginsGUEST
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.
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19:23Myles CagginsGUEST
His forces moved south into Damascus and took over and liberated Syria from the Assad regime on December 8th, 2024.
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19:31Myles CagginsGUEST
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.
ISRAEL BREACHED IRANIAN AIRSPACE TO TRIGGER AN IRANIAN RESPONSE - w/ Trita Parsi
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29:58Trita ParsiGUEST
They're just doing it on a scale right now that is impossible to deny, including in Western conversations.
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30:06Mario NawfalHOST
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
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30:38Trita ParsiGUEST
out two points in this first of all, remember what the Israelis did immediately after Assad fell.
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30:46Trita ParsiGUEST
And they said it themselves on their TV.
MAJOR EXPLOSION IN SYRIA AS ISRAELI POWER STRUGGLE WIDENS
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13:24Mario NawfalHOST
That country is not getting a fucking break.
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13:26Mario NawfalHOST
Massive explosion again at a weapons depot in Sarakik, Idlib region, northwest Syria.
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13:33Mario NawfalHOST
which near the Turkish border, I guess.
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13:35Mario NawfalHOST
Secondary explosions can be seen in the footage.
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Türkiye Hold Urgent Security Summit | News Round-up Ep. 276
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70:11Karim ShamiHOST
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.
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70:21Karim ShamiHOST
Just now, there's a huge, huge bomb or explosion happened in Idlib in Syria.
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70:28Karim ShamiHOST
The gas pipes are being blown or their stockpiles of weapons are being blown.
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70:33Karim ShamiHOST
And even the government is not even accusing anybody.
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