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Is Syria’s leader still a jihadi or not?

Episode 333 – Is it wise to see an ‘ex’ jihadi as the best hope for Syria? Hip hip hooray for Syria! The hated Assad regime is done, hopefully for ever. The country could enter a new era – fingers crossed – but the new leader is a man who is a ?former? terrorist, Ahmed […]

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Is Syria turning jihadi?

Episode 273 – Once an AQ jihadi always an AQ jihadi? The world rightly celebrated the ouster of Bashar al Assad, the brutal Syrian dictator, in December 2024 when a motley crew, including jihadis, took the capital, Damascus. Syrians who had engaged their autocrats in a bid for freedom since the Arab Spring, were finally […]

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It Would Be a Mistake to Label Syria an Ex-terrorist Haven Just Yet

This piece first appeared in The Epoch Times Canada on December 9, 2024. Assad is gone from Syria. Hip hip hooray. Actually, let’s wait a minute before celebrating. Any time a dictator who has abused his nation’s citizens—jailing them, torturing them, and even using chemical weapons against them—is forced to flee has to be a […]

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Whither Syria after the Assads?

Episode 247 – Is it time to yet to celebrate a new beginning in Syria? Any time a brutal dictator is ousted is a good day for the world as there are far too many still in power in the world. The Assads, father and son, were particularly inhumane, using, among other tools, chemical weapons […]

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May 4, 2016: Jihadi attack kills children in Syria

On May 4, 2016 Jabhat Al-Nusra attacked a village of in Syria, killing 15 civilians, including 4 children.

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April 10, 2016: ISIS shooting of Syrian journalist

On April 10, 2016 ISIS terrorists claimed the shooting of a Syrian TV presenter in Gaziantep, Turkey, near the border with Syria.

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September 27, 2008: Car bomber strikes unknown target in Syria

On September 27, 2008 a car bomb on the outskirts of Syria’s capital Damascus killed at least 17 people.

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June 8, 2016: Balloon attack in Syria

On June 9, 2016 Jabhat Al Nusra terrorists shelled the Syrian city of Aleppo with explosives placed in gas balloons killing 5 and wounding 50

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UK woman who joined ISIS in Syria is denied return home by High Court

Shamima Begum: Return to UK ‘a security risk’

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ISIS execution in Syria (July 9, 2016)

On this day in 2016, the terrorist group ISIS beheaded four football players in Raqqa, Syria after having declared that sport are ‘un-Islamic’.