JERUSALEM—Extremist Syrian Islamist forces have seized regulate over a lot of Aleppo, the second-largest town within the war-torn nation, elevating important unused questions for the U.S. govt about its coverage within the extremely risky Syrian Arab Republic.
“I think it is concerning if some elements of the anti-Assad forces get their hands on sensitive sites in Syria. There have been reports that they have seized the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center, which is where Assad’s chemical weapons program is housed among other military assets,” Jason Brodsky, coverage director for United Towards Nuclear Iran, advised Fox Information Virtual.
He persisted, “Given the background of some of these groups which were formerly affiliated with Al-Qaeda, it raises serious questions and could have implications for Israeli national security.”
The federal government of Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly met on Friday evening to speak about the unedited information popping out of Syria.
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Automobiles burn upcoming an airstrike towards opposition warring parties in Aleppo, Syria, past due Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photograph/Ghaith Alsayed)
Former President Barack Obama trim a extensively criticized offer with Syrian regime dictator Bashar Assad in 2013 to take away his chemical weapons program. U.S. officers nearest mentioned that Assad most probably retained a part of his chemical war equipment. Assad has time and again old poison fuel on his crowd to dissolve the democratic rise up that opened up towards his regime in 2011.
There are recently about 900 American infantrymen in Syria as a part of a challenge to defeat the Islamic Climate. The U.S. army presence in Syria, in step with Mideast professionals, additionally is helping to blunt the Iranian regime’s makes an attempt to take in of portions of Syria.
The seizure of many of the two million-person populated town of Aleppo is a stunning military defeat for Assad and his allies, the usdesignated terrorist motion, Hezbollah, Russia, and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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But, Brodsky warned that Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an amalgam of radical Islamist teams that fix the victory in Aleppo, may be a extremely bad group for the U.S.
“We can’t forget that one of these groups, HTS has been designated by the U.S. as a foreign terrorist organization. I think Israel’s degradation of Hezbollah emboldened the anti-Assad forces as they smelled blood in the water with this assault on Aleppo. It’s not only Hezbollah’s losses, but also the IRGC’s [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] losses which are testing the Quds Force’s structures in Syria.
A Syrian opposition fighter takes a picture of a comrade stepping on a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Aleppo, early Saturday Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
“Let’s now not fail to remember that Israel decapitated the IRGC Quds Pressure Area 2000, which oversees operations within the Levant, two times within the closing occasion lonely, to not point out alternative key commanders within the Syrian theater. That could be a lack of relationships, abilities and networks that experience positioned the IRGC at a drawback, particularly when Hezbollah has been beneath such pressure,” he said.
The United States government has designated both Iran’s regime and the Syrian Arab Republic as state-sponsors of terrorism.
Phillip Smyth, an expert on Iranian regime proxy groups and Syria, who is with the Atlantic Council, told Fox News Digital, “If you happen to had been pondering Assad used to be sending out or had the rest elite and practical for preventing forces, recall that almost each and every a success offensive for pro-Assad aspect used to be finished through Iran and Iran proxies and or Russia since 2013 and 2015, respectively.”
Smyth said that “HTS is a gaggle this is an outgrowth of Al-Qaeda and has connections to Turkey. Their endgame is to assemble a Talibanesque crowd with a couple of tweaks.”
Anti-regime groups take control of some villages western countryside as the clashes between the Bashar al-Assad regime and the opposition armed group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) continue in Aleppo, Syria on November 27, 2024. (Kasim Rammah/Anadolu via Getty Images)
He said, “I suspicion the U.S. can be ready to mention we’re hunky-dory with this. They attacked us on 9/11, “in reference to the Al-Qaeda origin of HTS. Smyth, however, noted that Assad’s is the other side of the same dangerous coin for U.S interests. He said regarding Assad and HTS, “I don’t assume both is a great case. Assad has been very Anti-American. He has allowed Lebanese Hezbollah to metastasize and applied Sunni Jihad teams” Smith added that “Assad allowed Al-Qaeda to progress to Iraq to blast American citizens.”
The U.S. allied staff, a coalition of Kurdish forces referred to as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), may be found in Aleppo. The SDF performed a crucial position in defeating the Islamic Climate in Syria.
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Fighters enter the Rashidin district on the outskirts of Aleppo on their motorbikes with smoke billowing in the background during fighting on November 29, 2024, as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadists and allied factions continue their offensive in the Aleppo province against government forces. (Photo by Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images)
Wladimir van Wilgenburg, a Kurdish studies expert, discussed the SDF and the Kurdish force YPG (The People’s Defense Units) with Fox News Digital. He said “Town of Aleppo is house to 2 Kurdish-dominated neighborhoods beneath the regulate of the Kurdish-led SDF/YPG and an important choice of displaced nation from Afrin (which is beneath Turkish regulate) dwelling in Til Rifaat in northern Aleppo. It’s not likely the HTS will settle for the YPG from controlling the airport. Russia, for the primary life, has additionally performed airstrikes in Aleppo, killing a number of civilians and revolt warring parties.”
Van Wilgenburg, the co-author of the 2021 book with Dr. Michael Knights on the SDF-U.S. partnership against the Islamic State, continued that “The emerging affect of HTS additionally poses a warning to the YPG’s presence in northern Aleppo. Significantly, the YPG/SDF withdrew from Nubl and Zahra and not using a combat, having moved in upcoming regime and Iran-backed militias prior to now took regulate of the ones cities.”
FILE – In this Feb. 25, 2019 file photo, released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, greets Syrian President Bashar Assad, in Tehran, Iran. On Nov. 13, 1970, Hafez Assad, a young career air force officer, launched a bloodless coup. Fifty years later, his family still rules Syria. The country is in ruins from a decade of civil war that killed around a half million people, displaced half the population and virtually wiped out the economy. But Hafez’s son, Bashar Assad, has an unquestioned grip on what remains. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)
General Hossein Daghighi, Advisor to the Commander of the IRGC, said on Saturday, according to Iran International, “The enemy is incapable of taking any efficient motion, because the resistance networks were systematically arranged. Their makes an attempt to meddle in Syria will lead to their hand being decisively severed, resignation a mark on historical past that is probably not forgotten.”
A destroyed Syrian army tank sits in the village of Anjara, western outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Thursday Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
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The Syrian regime’s military announced their “redeployment operation” in Aleppo. “The massive numbers of terrorists and the multiplicity of battlefronts triggered our defense force to hold out a redeployment operation aimed toward nourishing the protection traces to deliver to take in the assault, saving the lives of civilians and infantrymen, and get ready for a counterattack,” said Syria’s military.
According to Syria’s military, “Dozens of guys from our defense force had been killed and others wounded” as “terrorist organizations had been in a position over the time hours to go into massive portions of neighborhoods of Aleppo town.”
Assad’s regime has slaughtered over 500,000 nation in Syria since 2011. The U.N. has since banned monitoring the loss of life toll there.
