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Tempest Kurd Syria

The Kurds and the Syrian revolutionary process: The new regime, Arab chauvinism and the struggle ahead

Joseph Daher writes about the evolution of Kurdish politics after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.
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Where is Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Syria heading?

Joseph Daher provides an update on the worrying developments under Ahmed al-Sharaa’s new government.
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Stop war against the Kurds: Stand for peace, justice and freedom; solidarity with the Kurdish people

Kurdistan National Congress — The clear objective of the war of annihilation against the Kurds is to hand Syria over from the Baath dictatorship to the HTS dictatorship.
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Suweida under fire: Sectarianism and the consolidation of power in Damascus

Joseph Daher — Events in Suweida demonstrate Syria is experiencing a process of establishing a new authoritarian regime.
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HTS’ strategy to consolidate its power in Syria

Joseph Daher — The new authorities are rooting themselves in international alliances while resorting to sectarianism similarly to the old regime.
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Syria: Sharaa’s authoritarian centralisation stumbles in Suweida

Sharaa’s gamble on centralising Syria by force rather than democratic consensus building gets a deadly reality check in Suweida, writes Joseph Daher.
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Arab elites welcome Trump as massacres in Gaza continue

Sushovan Dhar — As Israel’s war continues to inflict suffering on Gaza, Arab monarchies busied themselves with welcoming Trump and signing multimillion-dollar trade agreements.
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The Syrian conflict is not yet over: Assad has fallen, but the revolution hasn’t won

Yassin al-Haj Saleh — The enormity of Assad’s fall is one thing; claiming the revolution has triumphed is another.
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‘HTS rejects Syria’s social mosaic, thus obstructing any path toward a democratic, pluralistic future’

Women's Defense Units — In response to the massacres committed against our Syrian people, our greatest act of resistance will be to embrace legitimate self-defense and realize a democratic Syria that welcomes all peoples.
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Revolutionary Left Current: Syria at a crossroads — Towards freedom or tyranny

Revolutionary Left Current — The interim constitutional declaration has entrenched the very opposite of the goals and roots of the Syrian revolution.
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Post-Assad Syria: Entering the era of ‘Assadism without Assad’

Yaqoub Abdul Majeed — After more than five decades of the Assad family’s rule, Syria appears to be entering a phase of “Assadism without an Assad”.