Protesters rally against sectarian killings in the north-eastern Syrian city of Qamishli. Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images.
By Fiorella Isabel – Mar 18, 2025
Framed as sectarian war, the Syrian genocide and assaults on Gaza and Yemen are part of a long-standing UK-US-Israeli-Western strategy to dominate the region via the erasure of the Axis of Resistance.
Syria’s massacres that can be defined by nothing less than genocide have exceeded in the slaughter of over 10,000 dead souls. The last few days flooded with videos and images of the endless public, mass executions of children, women, civilians, and entire families, have shown that the world is willing to watch yet another genocide unfold with most of the international media and the international community silent, excusing or down-playing the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) terrorist ethnic cleansing of Syrians. As Israel once again strikes Gaza killing over 400 people, with the full backing of the Trump administration who is also bombing Yemen (more on these in the next article) people need to understand these events are not singular but rather a collaborative effort by the Zionist-US empire and its NATO partners, to annihilate the region of its indigenous inhabitants, fulfill Greater Israel and reap all resources.
Most recently HTS militants illegally crossed from Syria into Lebanon and were confronted and killed by local forces. HTS responded by launching around 50 rockets in North Lebanon’s villages full of families. Israel simultaneously launched attacks in South Lebanon, violating the ceasefire yet again, with the combined attacks killing dozens of people. In conjunction with Jolani’s militants attacking Bekaa Valley Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes have targeted the same valley in support of Nusra front terrorists. The Lebanese army was deployed to investigate, prompting locals to launch rockets at the terrorist HTS factions. In Bekaa, both tribes and the army have confronted these terrorists. Additionally, Lebanese tribes along the Lebanese-Syrian border are now using drones to monitor HTS movements in response to ongoing attacks on their villages.
As these events unfold, some may feel embarrassed for having so quickly and eagerly normalized relations with the rebranded Western-Zionist intelligence puppet Al-Jolani and his group of violent extremists. Others like those in the Gulf-funded AlJazeera, who have been lying about Syria for the last 15 years, simply can’t turn back now and thus continue their lies, shifting blame to Assad and his supporters. However for anyone paying even a little attention, it was clear that this outcome was inevitable once the U.S.-backed Israeli-Turkish-Gulf plan to oust Assad and replace him with these Al Qaeda factions unfolded and Damascus fell. It has now been clearly demonstrated that Assad’s government, often labeled as a violent and authoritarian regime, was in fact the safeguard against this very outcome. It prevented the current collapse of the former modern, free, secular Syria where diverse faiths coexisted harmoniously and residents identified simply as Syrian.
On March 6, pro-Resistance groups launched a rebellion against the oppressive terrorist regime that seized control of Syria two months prior, ambushing HTS military personnel in Latakia and nearby areas, resulting in the deaths of at least 16 security forces. On the same day, radical Takfiri government troops began deploying to coastal cities—Latakia, Banias, Tartous, and Jableh—to confront what they labeled as “regime remnants,” or pro-Assad Resistance fighters. This ultimately led to mass executions and atrocities committed against every Syrian civilian who came into contact with these Wahhabi terrorist factions.
Most mainstream and international media, which tend to favor Israel and the West, have at best dismissed the numerous instances of harassment, assassinations, and executions of civilians in Syria as merely a “sectarian war”—implying it is driven by ethnic or religious motives. At worst, they engage in significant gaslighting by placing blame on the former Assad government and its remaining supporters. The problem is not only have Alawites been slaughtered, Shia, Sunni, Christian, and even Mennonites as well as other ethnic minorities have been targeted. Christian relics have fallen prey to destruction and even those who hated the Assad government have been speaking out against the atrocities targeting every single person, child or baby HTS encounters, while the mass media continue to talk about this as an “Islamic problem”. Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Dala, head of the Center for Research and Studies on Islamic Unity in Syria, was assassinated by the terrorist HTS forces for condemning the ethnic cleansing of Syria’s Alawites.
Media and international human rights organization have also diminished the slaughters to barely over a thousand instead of the over 10,000 that Syrians and journalists in Lebanon who are getting information from those refugees managing to escape the genocide, are reporting. There are also reports of water and bread being poisoned, a tactic also employed by Israel on Palestinians and HTS and Al-Qaeda in Syria, long before this year. An article from 2019 outlines how ISIS and Al-Nusra Front, an Al Qaeda affiliate, allegedly poisoned the water supply in Syria.
Meanwhile the BBC has now given a number of over 1200 hundred people killed in Latakia, Tartous, Hama and Homs provinces, while other numbers from NPR estimate 1300, grossly understating the human toll. The UN has welcomed a “promise” by Syria’s unelected “interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa,” aka Jolani, to form an alleged “independent investigative committee” and to hold those responsible to account. This as the Ministry of Defense of the Syrian government has claimed that they plan to arrest “every violator who committed a crime against civilians on the Syrian coast during the military operation and orders that they be referred to the military court and the judiciary.” The account alleging this belongs to Mousa Alomar, a journalist for the new “free Syria” regime. He went on to state that what happened was “sad” and then blamed “Assad remnants”.
The obvious issue with this propaganda is that the current slayings continue and that the “Syrian government,” its military court and ministry are all made up of “former” Al-Qaeda members. Any punishments supposedly coming to these terrorist factions will be slaps on the wrists, symbolic gestures to quell the outcry. It’s as unserious as serial killers investigating themselves for murder. We can anticipate that the Western-Israeli powers responsible for instigating this situation will quickly intervene, attempting to present themselves as the solution to the chaos they created decades ago, even as violence persists.
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The idea itself of “Assad remnants” itself should also be marked as exactly what it is, a Western-Zionist fabrication meant to dehumanize and diminish the very real genocide of all Syrians. Recognizing this as valid legitimizes the notion that it is a genuine phenomenon, when in reality, the assassination of those who supported the former President for their political beliefs is not only wrong and fascistic but also fundamentally contradicts the “democratic free Syria” that Jolani and his Western backers claim to uphold. Moreover, this perspective disregards countless individuals who do not fit their criteria yet continue to be murdered. Thousands are currently fleeing Syria with little and attempting to start over because if they and their families stay they will be undoubtedly massacred. No one is at this point denying Syrias internal problems or even Assad’s alleged role in misdirecting them, but using the same talking Western Zionist points doesn’t stop the lies-it strengthens them. Pushing the “Assad remnants” narrative empowers the long-prepared ethnic cleansing of Syrians as “sectarian” or a valid punishment when it is in fact a result of serious coordination, planning and decades long execution by the West and its Zionist partners, seeking to isolate Iran, control the region and expand Greater Israel. Even now we’re seeing some Westernized “but Assad” commentators pretend that the 2011 protests in Syria, done by the White Helmets and radical factions were “unarmed” and met combated with brute force from the Syrian army. But the reality is that the Western-funded sectarian protests from 14 years ago were full of armed terrorist factions who attacked and murdered unarmed members of Syrian security forces in Daraa . All of this is reminiscent of what we are seeing today and never truly stopped in all of Syria’s efforts of fighting against the violence for over a decade.
The Zionist-Western war against Syria has been ongoing since before most of us reading this were alive. Journalist Vanessa Beeley carefully outlines the numerous CIA and MI6 interventions in Syria in her article from October 2021, 75 Years & Counting: A History of Western Regime Change in Syria Part I. Back in 1969 Miles Copeland, a former CIA officer, outlines in a BBC interview how the CIA organized and directed the failed coup of 1949 after Syria ended the colonial Vichy French occupation. Washington then ousted elected secular President Shukri Al Quwatli, who supported the Palestinian cause, opposed Zionism, and refused to recognize the state of Israel established under U.S. President Truman’s influence. Al Quwatli had also rejected the Trans Arabian Pipeline (TAPLINE), a joint venture involving Standard Oil of New Jersey (ExxonMobil), Standard Oil of California, and Texaco (Chevron), believing it would grant the US excessive influence in Syria.
Of course the covert interventions went on as was outlined and exposed by WikiLeaks via an email thread to Hillary Clinton from July 23, 2012, where Israeli intelligence noted that the collapse of Syria and fall of Assad would spark a Sunni-Shiite war that would benefit Israel. They also mention that with the fall of Damascus under Assad, Iran would lose its only ally in the region and would thus be isolated. Zionist intelligence hoped that Iran would be drawn into the regional war, diverting its attention away from nuclear armament for some significant time, going as far as suggesting this could lead to the eventual fall of the current government of Iran.
In essence U.S.-funded Israel backed by the West, primarily Washington and Britain, would use its intelligence-birthed terrorist proxies including ISIS, Al Qaeda, White Helmets, and all spin-offs to destabilize Syria, remove Assad from power and continue supporting these groups until Syrians killed one another-exactly what we are witnessing right now via HTS and other terrorist factions. The reason why we’re not seeing any of the terrorist groups attack Israel, why we have not and likely never will, is clearly because this plan to destroy Syria originates in Western Zionism, with Israel as the main beneficiary to the generated sectarianism in Syria.
The email also mentioned how EU officials were concerned that the ongoing conflict in Syria would lead to uprisings in these countries that would bring “increasingly conservative Islamic regimes into power, replacing existing secular or moderate regimes.” Israeli intelligence also privately noted that while they considered Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s government hostile, it acted as a buffer between Israel and “more militant Muslim countries,” which was threatened by the “growing successes” of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). Israel’s acknowledgment of the fact that the Western-funded groups were dangerous to anyone did not stop them from using them, but rather urged them to control and work with them to act against Assad. They also knew that attacking Iran at that moment was a bad idea that would have united the Axis against Israel, and instead as we now know chose to target Syria, Hezbollah, Palestine, Yemen and increasingly befriend and control the Gulf states including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt.
In the entirety of the most recent history of Western intervention and sabotage in West Asia, we can see that the goal is exactly to destroy Iran as it is the largest barrier to Israeli dominance in the entire region and to the finalization of Greater Israel. The current Trump administration, the most Zionist in US history, has repeatedly backed this foreign policy goal with their rhetoric against Tehran, their full support of Netanyahu’s policy on Palestine, their genocide in Gaza, their current slicing of Syria, the backing of HTS, the bombing of Yemen, their targeting of Hamas and Hezbollah, and the use of the Gulf to undermine Resistance. Let’s not forget to mention the billions continuously sent to Israel while Washington claims Iran is interfering in elections and China is influencing the U.S. government. This administration is tasked to target Latin America, West Asia, and China, and we are seeing the steps toward these actions unfold now.
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Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a Qatar-based Sunni-Islam theologian and the unofficial chief ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood, who died on September 26, 2022 at the age of 96, was a prime example of the the treacherous Gulf sentiment toward resistance factions. Journalist Eva Bartlett outlined how Qaradawi pushed the killing of Syrian civilians, “It is OK to kill one third of the Syrian population if it leads to the toppling of the heretical regime,” he said. This we saw echoed in many pro-Palestine accounts that push the Zionist line, not understanding or purposely misconstruing that the same puppet masters are pulling the strings in the destruction of Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Iran and beyond. Saudi Arabia has long sold out to the West and Israel and the sectarianism manifested in Syria today was constructed and fueled by the Wahhabi, Muslim Brotherhood, and radical factions from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey, with support from the Zionist West including NATO.
In reality Syria was invaded with the help of over 80 countries and thousands of terrorists from outside the country, all in attempts to divide people back then. Bashar al-Assad gave an interview in February of 2016 to El Pais and said he did not know whether Syria would have succeeded without the help of Russia and Iran but said, “we definitely need that help for a simple reason: because more than 80 countries supported those terrorists in different ways, some of them directly with money, with logistical support, with armaments, with recruitments. Some other countries supported them politically, in different international forums. Syria is a small country. We could fight, but in the end, there’s unlimited support and recruitment for those terrorists. You definitely need international support.”
The landscape of Russia’s interests in Syria changed in the years leading up to Syria’s fall and there’s consideration for several factors. One, Turkey is in control of the Black Sea grain corridor that Russia needs access to as the war in Ukraine has made this a necessity. According to multiple sources Assad’s pivot to the Gulf condemned by many, was largely pushed by Russia as Moscow had long engaged with both Saudis and Assad to bring them to have conversations. This was because the Putin wanted the Syria conflict to end as early as 2017 and from Russia’s perspective, there was a need to bring stability into a region that was far too unpredictable, chaotic and disorganized. Additionally Assad refused to have conversations with Erdogan which undeniably bothered Russia, who sought to resolve this conflict and move on.
At the meeting in Doha, Qatar on December 7, before the official fall of Damascus, Iran, Turkey, and Russia’s foreign ministers all met to discuss Syria in Astana format, while they also met with the Saudi Foreign Minister. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov acknowledged Washington’s role and their geopolitical game in Syria, saying Damascus should not be taken over by terrorists, but said all legitimate opposition should be heard. Iran’s Foreign Minister echoed these statements also advocating for dialogue between the Assad government and opposition groups. The very next day on December 8, the Syrian Army command notified officers that President Assad’s rule had ended and Damascus fell.
About a week later the Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told a local TV channel NTV that Turkey played a pivotal role on ensuring Assad’s allies Iran and Russia did not intervene in the offensive that toppled Assad’s government, admitting Ankara’s role in training the Syrian terrorists he referred to as “rebels”. He reiterated that the Turkish Foreign Ministry had worked to ensure that the Russians did not enter the equation and that they all discussed these issues in Doha, with both Iran and Russia seeing no point in continuing this further. While it’s hard to rely on Turkey’s statements because of their tendency to manipulate wherever the wind favors them, such statements would not be made lightly so this is something to note.
The Russian government functions in a very pragmatic way, with bureaucratic tediousness in every facet of its institutions. While it understands the war in Ukraine is existential for them, they are fighting to survive and thrive not for an ideological purpose-which is directly opposite of how the Axis of Resistance functions. A Resistance fighter may die but they will fight on knowing this because the cause is greater than themselves and the belief is not only existentially but ideologically driven, beyond immediate strategic gains and toward a moral, abstract understanding that no matter what they must fight their oppressors; survival is not merely physical. While this sentiment is shared by many patriots in Donbass who were willing to die fighting Neo-Nazis, for the Russian government the logical thing to do is find clarity, calm, and build up their economy, protect their national security interests and move forward in advancement as a nation not tied to anything other than belief in its own institutions, people and a desire to advance in the material. This is why you see Russia closely follow the UN Charter and diplomacy at every turn, to attain tangible gains. Many spectators with their own agendas or misunderstandings prefer to see things as they wish rather than as they are.
According to Ynet (also echoed by other media), in January Benjamin Netanyahu sent his military secretary to Moscow for a series of security and diplomatic meetings aimed at strengthening cooperation with Russia. Israel’s position on Syria is becoming increasingly clear: it favors Russian influence over Turkey’s expanding presence and is actively working to limit Turkish involvement. A key goal of recent Moscow meetings was to encourage Russia to pressure Hamas—via intermediaries—to facilitate negotiations for the release of Israeli hostages, including Maxim Herkin, a dual Israeli-Russian citizen, which Hamas had promised to abide by, but is now in jeopardy due to Israel’s new strike on Gaza. Let’s not forget that over 1 million Russians live in Israel and that there are those ties to Tel Aviv within Russia and outside as well.
Israel has also lobbied Washington to maintain a weak and decentralized Syria by allowing Russia to retain its military bases there, thereby countering Turkey’s expanding influence in the region. Netanyahu has escalated calls for the demilitarization of southern Syria and is pressing the U.S. to ensure that Syria remains “weak,” enabling Russia to keep its military presence as a counterbalance to Turkey’s efforts to forge a security alliance with Syria’s new leadership. He reaffirmed Israel’s military position in key areas of Lebanon and Syria, stating, “We demand full demilitarization of southern Syria from forces of the new regime and will not tolerate any threats to the Druze population.” For Russia, this arrangement allows them to maintain their base in Syria while establishing one in Libya, and reducing dependence on Ankara, which currently holds an advantageous position in these negotiations.
After the fall of Damascus, Russia was among the first to recognize the flag of the new Syria in its embassies and on February 12, Putin had a phone conversation with Jolani, discussing cooperation in trade, economic and educational sectors. According to Russian media, Moscow emphasized its position in support of “unity, sovereignty, and territorial integrity” for Syria, pushing for dialogue between factions. On the same day and almost immediately after Trump took office, he and Putin spoke on the phone for 1.5 hours for the first time since he returned to the White House. The discussions marked the initial phase of negotiations between Russia, the U.S., and Ukraine aimed at ending a conflict; conversations that had been planned long before Trump took office. These talks also encompassed issues related to the Middle East and Iran’s nuclear program. Israel and Mahmoud Abbas, seen as a supporter of Zionist interests, were both invited to Russia’s Victory Day parade on May 9 this year. While the U.S. did not receive an invitation, Trump was invited to Moscow by Putin, along with representatives from China. Notably absent from the guest list were Venezuela and Iran.
What’s true is that after Jolani handed southern Syria to Israel on a silver platter, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Jolani and took northern Syria and now Turkish forces have begun building a base at the Menagh military airport in the Aleppo countryside. These satellite images show extensive activity at the Menagh Air Base, north of Aleppo, confirming that the base has been transformed into a Turkish military facility just as orchestrated by Ankara. From this perspective it appears Israel, Turkey and Washington worked together to use the radical factions to partition Syria, but now Israel wants a larger piece of the pie, Erdogan is eager to establish dominance in key areas, and Washington wants to oversee everything, leaving the carcass of Syria to the vultures. Enter Russia who desires to keep its base and by siding with Israel simultaneously creates less reliance on Ankara, while still maintaining a relationship with Iran. Fanning the flames further, Erdogan has just announced that Ankara will never recognize Crimea as Russian territory, even though it’s been over ten years since they voted themselves to join Russia. Strategic diplomacy in an era of delicate boundaries, dubious eyes and allies, is all in a day’s work.
Iran has also been walking a fine line between current President Masoud Pezeshkian and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, both who have recently told Trump they will not be bullied into Washington’s threats and demands. While Pezeshkian is a reformist, the real power lies behind Khamenei and even if Iran had backed off Syria perhaps because Assad had pivoted away, it is still seen as a potential problem for Israel-hence why the US is increasingly building threats including using Iran as the excuse to attack Yemen, which Trump has done. While Iran embodies the spirit of Resistance for many, it is also a nation at risk of U.S. intervention, with political factions lurking in the shadows ready to alter the entire governmental landscape. A significant criticism directed at Tehran is its tepid response to Israel’s attacks on Gaza, falling short of both expectations and its potential capacity to retaliate against Tel Aviv. In truth, Iran faces a critical choice: to continue along the path of the Resistance struggle, potentially leading to all out war with the United States, or to pursue normalization with the West, which would likely result in a radical and unfavorable shift in government that could ultimately destroy its national sovereignty.
Just days ago Israel struck Damascus with Israeli military claiming that it was targeting “a command centre belonging to Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” which it said was used to direct “terrorist activities” against Israel. While there’s no evidence of this Israel was not met with any resistance from Jolani or HTS. There’s increasing tension with HTS coming into Lebanon with the excuse of targeting Hezbollah, as Israel gets to freely take over the rest of Syria and attack Lebanon while the U.S is bombing Yemen and the excuse is the increasing “danger” of Iran to Washington. Let’s recall the famous words from General Wesley Clark, relating to the post-9/11 plan made by the Bush Administration for endless war: “We’re gonna take out 7 countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off with Iran.” Iran is the last country standing on this list and this administration has been designated to carry out a plan to target it.
Recent events—including the collapse of Syria, the potential conclusion of the Ukraine war and its impact on alliances, the genocide in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing and rise of Wahhabi terrorist factions across Syria and the region, Israel’s aggression towards Lebanon, and U.S. and UK bombings in Yemen—represent a continuation of the War on Terror. Conflicts do not cease; they merely change their appearance and dynamics, which is a fundamental aspect of U.S. American foreign policy. The key takeaway for anyone engaging with Washington is to recognize that negotiating with these terrorists in expensive suits will only perpetuate conflicts in one form or another, as it is through such turmoil that they thrive.
(Substack)
