Syrians are celebrating after the fall of the decades long Assad regime. Syria Campaign executive director Razan Rashidi, who was forced to leave her country, joins José Díaz-Balart to describe the brutality of the fallen dictatorship and the road ahead for Syria.
This is an adapted excerpt from the Dec. 15 episode of 'Ayman.' More than a week after Syrian rebels toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad, U.S. officials are praising the Syrian people and talking about what the new regime could look like. But there’s also another layer to how they reacted to the news. “The upshot for all this is, for the first time ever, neither Russia nor Iran nor Hezbollah could defend this abhorrent regime in Syria,” President Joe Biden said from the White House.
is the only country that recognizes it as part of Israel, other than Israel itself. The international community widely slammed this policy change but Democrats have not forcefully pushed back on it. When Biden took office, his administration mostly ignored Syria. They also never reversed Trump’s policy. In fact, in 2021, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, “Leaving aside the legalities of that question, as a practical matter, the Golan is very important to Israel’s security.
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