JERUSALEM—President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday weighed in for the primary time on the Syrian Islamist revolt in opposition to the nation’s dictator Bashar al-Assad who’s holed up in his palace in Damascus.
The unconventional Islamist motion reached the suburbs of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Saturday and are making ready to storm the principle bastion of Assad’s fledgling regime.
Trump warned on the social media platform Fact Social: “Syria is a multitude, however shouldn’t be our buddy, & THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED!”
He took former President Obama to activity for failing to implement his “purple line” in 2013 to launch army strikes in opposition to Assad after the Syrian strongman executed a surprising mass chemical weapons strike on civilians, by which greater than 1,400 folks have been killed.
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President-elect Donald Trump predicted to Fox Information in October that President Biden would pardon his son Hunter. (Fox Information)
Critics accused Obama’s administration on the time of reneging on its promise to take army motion in opposition to Assad for his crimes in opposition to humanity.
“That is the place former President Obama refused to honor his dedication of defending the RED LINE IN THE SAND, and all hell broke out, with Russia stepping in. However now they’re, like presumably Assad himself, being compelled out, and it might really be the perfect factor that may occur to them. There was by no means a lot of a profit in Syria for Russia, aside from to make Obama look actually silly,” wrote Trump.
He added “Opposition fighters in Syria, in an unprecedented transfer, have completely taken over quite a few cities, in a extremely coordinated offensive, and at the moment are on the outskirts of Damascus, clearly making ready to make a really massive transfer towards taking out Assad. Russia, as a result of they’re so tied up in Ukraine, and with the loss there of over 600,000 troopers, appears incapable of stopping this literal march by means of Syria, a rustic they’ve protected for years.”
Additionally on Saturday, the Israeli army, which is on excessive alert, introduced, “A short time in the past, an assault was carried out by armed people at a U.N. publish within the Hader space in Syria. The IDF is at the moment aiding the U.N. forces in repelling the assault.”
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A Syrian opposition fighter takes an image of a comrade stepping on a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Aleppo, early on Saturday Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Picture/Ghaith Alsayed) (AP Picture/Ghaith Alsayed)
The IDF added that it has deployed “strengthened forces within the Golan Heights space and can proceed to function with the intention to shield the State of Israel and its residents.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke together with his Turkish counterpart on the state of affairs in Syria. Turkey is the principal backer of the Islamist coalition searching for to topple the Assad regime.
The U.S.-designated terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist former Al-Qaeda affiliate that’s a part of the insurgent forces, is the important thing drive that has secured massive swaths of Syrian territory over the previous few days.
U.S. State Division Spokesperson Matthew Miller stated in a press release that “Blinken spoke at the moment with Turkish Overseas Minister Hakan Fidan to debate developments in Syria. Secretary Blinken emphasised the significance of defending civilians, together with members of minority teams, throughout Syria.”
An anti-government fighter covers his ears as a multi-barrel rocket launcher fires in opposition to regime forces within the northern outskirts of Syria’s west-central metropolis of Hama on December 4, 2024. Syrian authorities forces pressed a counterattack in opposition to Islamist-led rebels round the important thing metropolis of Hama on December 4 after struggling a string of staggering losses additional north, a warfare monitor stated. (Bakr al Kassem/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Miller added, “The Secretary mentioned the necessity for a political resolution to the battle, per U.N. Safety Council Decision 2254. Secretary Blinken additionally prolonged his congratulations to Overseas Minister Fidan on the collection of Ambassador Feridun Sinirlioglu because the OSCE [Organization for Security and Co-operation] Secretary Basic and appears ahead to continued cooperation within the area.”
The United Nations Safety Council handed Decision 2254 in 2015, which known as for a cease-fire, UN-run elections and a brand new structure. Assad rejected the decision’s implementation.
Aug. 31, 2013: President Obama with Vice President Biden as he makes a press release about Syria within the Rose Backyard on the White Home in Washington. (AP)
The State Division has categorized Assad’s regime as a state-sponsor of terrorism. Phillip Smyth, an knowledgeable on Iranian regime proxy teams and Syria, who’s with the Atlantic Council, advised Fox Information Digital concerning Trump’s remark, “I don’t see an enormous deviation from his earlier coverage factors. He’s staying the course. Realism with what’s going on.”
Trump’s message to [the] Assad regime and the HTS coalition is “I want them each luck. It’s primarily that,” stated Smyth. He termed Trump’s publish a “assertion of the fact” in regards to the Syrian civil warfare.
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FILE – On this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 citizen journalism file picture supplied by the United Media workplace of Arbeen, which has been authenticated primarily based on its contents and different AP reporting, members of a chemical weapons investigation crew take samples from sand close to part of a missile that’s prone to be one of many chemical rockets, based on activists, within the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. The Group for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, for working to get rid of the scourge that has haunted generations from World Conflict I to the battlefields of Syria. (AP Picture/United Media workplace of Arbeen, File) (The Related Press)
When requested whether or not he thought Assad would use chemical weapons on the Islamist rebels, Smyth stated, “It could not shock me if he did. There may be danger of it.” Smyth expects a bit extra anarchy within the battle of Damascus. “You’ll have completely different factions wrestling for management.”
Given the lightening seizure of main Syrian cities akin to Aleppo and Hama during the last week, Smyth stated, “I feel the writing is on the wall. His mobilization makes an attempt haven’t been profitable. There may be this lackadaisical haze over the Assad regime. You possibly can see inner corruption on full show in how they’re mobilizing and appearing. The speedy collapse says all the things. There may be quite a lot of paper tiger posture. There was no expectation that there could be an advance like this.”
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