Exclusive: Biden tells Syrian activists he still thinks Assad must go [_link] by me @washingtonpost

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) July 6, 2023

The Biden administration's official policy is to oppose the normalization of Assad, chiefly through sanctions, until he stops the slaughter. But behind the scenes, the administration is quietly but deliberately loosening that pressure, according to lawmakers in both parties and...

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) April 30, 2024

Before September 2015 the West and NATO partners had supported rebels, foreign fighters, jihadists which led to a full blown civil war with over 400,000 deaths. Barbaric acts by the Islamic State rooted and created after the Iraq invasion and atrocities by U.S. Armed Forces in Abu Ghraib [WARNING: propaganda from US Army War college targeting the messenger] and Camp Bucca detention center led to an resistance force led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that established the Islamic Caliphate in the Levant (ISIL) later joined by foreign fighters like Al Nusra Front in Northern Syria. A logistical role by NATO partner Turkey.

Looking at the casualties, the Russian effort led to lower deaths and wounded and an end to the war engaged by foreign powers. Silence is deafening. Late 2010 Israeli prime minister Netanyahu nearly completed and signed a peace treaty with Bashar Assad of Syria which included the Syrian Golan Heights.

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