Syrian rebels are vowing to secure Assad's stockpile of chemical weapons after the fall of his regime. Former U.S. envoy to Syria Ambassador James Jeffrey joins Chris Jansing to provide more insight on the 'complex and uncertain' situation and how the U.S. may play a role in the country's future.
The lightning victory of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham in its stunningly successful offensive to unseat the more than 50-year-old Assad family-led Baathist dictatorship in Syria was highly reminiscent of the manner in which the Taliban pushed down the house of cards that was the nominal Afghan government when the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021. It took the Taliban 10 days to race to victory and HTS a mere week to unseat Bashar al-Assad.
new leader, Abu Baqar Al-Baghdadi, was able to dispatch a set of fighters into Syria, including Abu Mohammad al-Jolani. Jolani established a group called the Nusra Front, which initially identified itself as an was able to form a “caliphate” in 2014, linking large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria and creating a mini-state of its own.
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