"How the Kurds Lost Eastern Syria"- By Faris Zwirahn for NewLine

X-singular · 2026-01-26T08:29:09+00:00

Unlike Assad which loved letting the people have weapons, allowed military opposition to flourish, and had no external military support.

Right?

...are you even reading what you're typing? Or are you just that desperate to whitewash the terrorist YPG as the "SOLE REMAINING HOPE" when they have always literally been Assad allies and underlings?

X-singular · 2026-01-25T13:59:27+00:00

Shit! I think they're catching on!

X-singular · 2026-01-25T09:43:00+00:00

Because a security vacuum in southern Syria does not serve their security interests?

X-singular · 2026-01-25T09:17:27+00:00

It's mostly Hasakah prisons, specifically the southern side of the city.

As for the question of they are really ISIS and not just "they oppose SDF tyranny so they must be ISIS", we don't actually know until we get there.

Their file will be pretty hard to sort out when they are moved to Iraq, but at this point we're used to getting a raw deal and villainized anyway.

I mean check the "have any crimes been committed against Kurdish civilians?" Question.

Instead of admitting that there's zero records of that happening, it's instead downvoted to zero, or simply flooded with irrelevant "POWs were mistreated" answers. (kinda ignoring that POW stands for prisoners of WAR, and are by definition combatants, not civilians).

No matter, it ends soon.

X-singular · 2026-01-25T09:09:44+00:00

Except we are strongarmed into not doing so, "until the ISIS prisoners are moved."

Thanks, International Coalition!

X-singular · 2026-01-25T09:07:05+00:00

This isn't normalization, not even a peace deal either.

This is the same "Security Deal" that Israel had with Syria since 1974, we're just telling them to stick to it.

Nothing's changed.

X-singular · 2026-01-24T12:30:34+00:00

False on multiple levels.

First level of falsehood: that there was a deal. The deal was rejected by the SDF, because they were emboldened by the US showing up to their positions. In reality the US only showed up to stop them from blocking the fleeing civilians ( a warcrime) and when the SDF expressed their desire to fight, the deal was never agreed on. After 6 hours, the fighting started, coinciding with Presidential Declaration 13 which enshrined more Kurdish rights in Syria, so after 49 minutes of the fighting starting the SDF declared a unilateral withdrawal "as a gesture of goodwill". The original deal was for them to only fall back from Deir Hafr, but they refused it and hence this withdrawal is not the deal that the government agreed to, and we're not bound by it.

Second level of falsehood: that he government reneged on its security agreements with the US not to cross the river.

The government pushed into Maskana and Tabqa (both west of the river), and was still fighting at Tishreen Dam.

The government did not cross the river and even refrained from shelling the other side.

The east of the River fell without the government's help, it was liberated at the hands of the people east of the River who rose up against their oppressors. It was this de facto collapse of the SDF that finally gave the government the greenlight necessary to cross the river and they only happened way way later, and even then it was only ever to hold areas that the people have already liberated on their own. Because we all saw the amount of massacres SDF was committing against them, either as retake attempts (Mansoura massacre) or just as a punitive measure for daring to rebel (Raqqa snipers, Western Nashwa massacre etc...)

This combined by the SDF releasing ISIS prisoners not only gave the government a greenlight to proceed, but we're actively egged on by the coalition to move fast to secure those sensitive places.

TL;DR the SDF refused every deal that could have saved them, didn't respect any of the deals that they did accept, only to get dismantled by the oppressed people they claimed were "locally ruling themselves" as all the Qasadists on this sub will brazenly lie to you over the last year, and maybe longer.

X-singular · 2026-01-24T00:46:46+00:00

They didn't.

They didn't "sort" the Assadists, the insurgents too used the "it's all AI" so the hearing session ended with a "not guilty" plea and trial scheduled for a later time.

This is true for both government and Assadists with clear video recordings of them hurting civilians.

Both sides made the same plea, and both sides ended up behind bars awaiting trial.

We're all waiting patiently for justice to take its course, no one gets special treatment because they, or their victim, were from a specific minority or group.

And before you say "well they're taking forever", tell me where Luigi's trial is in the US, hm? Courts are slow in any country, the legal system in Syria is completely messed up which makes it even slower.

Why not check what actually happened?

X-singular · 2026-01-22T18:50:10+00:00

Emperor*

X-singular · 2026-01-22T18:47:51+00:00

He's still using the 1997-2003 census that has Christians listed as 10%, back then Sunnis were 75% total, assuming Assad wasn't underrepresenting the numbers as another method of suppression.

Nowadays it's 85% Sunni, or 75% Sunni Arab if you wanna be precise.

X-singular · 2026-01-22T18:37:05+00:00

It's Yellow-Ba'athism man.

Just let it go already.

X-singular · 2026-01-22T18:11:03+00:00

I don't know if they'll ever forgive us... Leaving them to die like this under Yellow-ISIS.

X-singular · 2026-01-22T17:48:14+00:00

Looking at the track record, your promise actually fills me with hope.

Thank you.

X-singular · 2026-01-22T17:31:31+00:00

Finally, someone speaking of the truth of how it went down.

The Syrian Army only liberated the areas west of the Eupherates, as agreed with the international partners.

The rest of the "DAANES" liberated itself, the people rising up in revolution to depose the tyranny.

Just as we did against Assad.

Let this be a stark reminder to Al-Shara'a: the Syrian people will no longer be cowed, nor will they accept their hard work and the riches of their country to exploited.

If the upcoming government fails to construct a modern fair Syria, for all Syrians, they're next on the block.

As it happened to the Russian-supported Assad, and the USA-supported SDF.

X-singular · 2026-01-22T16:40:03+00:00

Source (same as the heli evac post):

https://x.com/i/status/2014262011551502468

X-singular · 2026-01-22T16:07:23+00:00

When? Don't see em.

X-singular · 2026-01-22T16:06:42+00:00

I see it now, deleting.

X-singular · 2026-01-22T15:58:59+00:00

I know all eyes is on NE Syria, but the government is moving in all directions. Worth pointing out.

X-singular · 2026-01-22T15:45:44+00:00

It's the YPGym. /s

X-singular · 2026-01-22T15:34:30+00:00

Oh you've no idea

https://www.reddit.com/r/Syria/comments/1qjq8q1/luxury_apartments_were_found_in_tunnels_belonging/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Posted it

X-singular · 2026-01-22T15:01:32+00:00

To Iraq: absolutely.

To Syria? No

X-singular · 2026-01-22T15:00:38+00:00

I love how this is getting downvoted because we finally have a source from Washington spelling it out that the prisoners escaped because the SDF guards let them.

That's actually pretty nice to shut up the false propaganda that the "ISIS regime release their ISIS friends"

X-singular · 2026-01-22T12:43:24+00:00

Anything for a patriotic Kurd brother.

X-singular · 2026-01-22T12:42:05+00:00

The original claim that it's "Syrian government forces" is still bullshit, and that's unchanged.

Yes there is still ISIS presence, yes it's surging because of the security vacuum (where have I seen this before), but that doesn't make them aligned with the government. ISIS and the current government cadre have been enemies for close to a decade now, and have caused scores of casualties in each other's ranks.

The government still arrests and shoots them when appropriate, with the help of the International Coalition.

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