‘Christians… Different Minorities Will Be Slaughtered’: Syria on the Brink of Civil Collapse
NORTHEAST SYRIA – The Trump administration warns Syria might face full-scale civil struggle inside weeks. When CBN Information visited the entrance strains of the battle-scarred nation, we found the brand new struggle has already begun.
Preventing rages throughout northern Syria with Turkish-backed forces clashing with Kurdish models on the Euphrates River whereas sectarian battles erupt within the south. All this comes as the brand new regime led by a former al-Qaeda commander struggles to unify the nation.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned, “It’s our evaluation that, frankly, the transitional authorities, given the challenges they’re going through, are perhaps weeks, not many months, away from potential collapse and a full-scale civil struggle of epic proportions.”
CBN Information lately visited the Tishreen Dam which has been within the information because the scene of some heavy combating between the Turkish-backed forces and HTS and the Kurds. Now the Kurds maintain the dam, and there is a ceasefire that only in the near past got here into impact, which they’re hoping will maintain. The one drawback is the Turks aren’t abiding by the ceasefire, so drone strikes and artillery shelling are nonetheless occurring each day out right here.
Mohammad Ahmed of the Free Burma Rangers mentioned, “Daytime and nighttime… we hear the airstrikes destroyed all this constructing. They by no means cease.”
Syrian Democratic Forces reply by fortifying cities throughout the area—digging tunnels, constructing boundaries, and erecting camouflaged walkways to evade drone strikes.
In city fight, you do not wish to stroll down the road since you’ll get shot. So the fighters break holes within the partitions to go between buildings with out exposing themselves on the road. We additionally discovered an underground entrance that results in miles and miles of tunnels that go beneath the town of Kobani and throughout this complete area.
Syriac Navy Council President Aram Hanna mentioned his group will not give up to terrorists or tyrants.
“HTS and the Assad regime, and even the FSA and SNA—they attacked us by airplanes or by air assaults. And the Turks are doing the identical. There is not any distinction. We can’t settle for to let our weapons down now. I believe we are going to give our weapons to who? ISIS, which is ruling Syria now? I imply, it is not possible for us,” Hanna mentioned.
The Kurds fought and misplaced over 12,000 lives to defeat ISIS. Now, they are saying the “transitional authorities” resembles the very caliphate they helped destroy.
“I am unable to consider them as a result of they, earlier than, now ISIS when us help the brand new authorities. For me, it is so shock why they try this. You recognize him (Ahmed al-Sharaa), what he finished prior to now,” Kurdish civilian Samira instructed us.
Hanna mentioned, “We’ll keep combating till we’ve got an actual plan that comprise us all—because the Syrians, Christian Syrians, Syriac Syrians, Armenian Syrians, Kurdish Syrians—and all of us. It is our nation.”
Free Burma Rangers, a humanitarian group working in Syria since 2016, stresses the significance of continued U.S. help to stop widespread bloodshed.
Dave Eubank, founding father of the Free Burma Rangers, instructed CBN Information, “The Euphrates River is the westernmost frontline for (Syrian)Democratic Forces they usually’re holding that very tenuously. With out worldwide help… simply due to Turkish air energy alone, the Syrian Nationwide Military will push the Kurds out, which implies the Kurds, the Christians, the Yazidis, different minorities can be slaughtered.”
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Because the U.S. reduces troops within the area, Kurds within the northeast develop more and more nervous and distrustful of the brand new regime.
“Everyone seems to be grateful and hopeful the U.S. will keep,” Eubank mentioned. “(The) United States can’t clear up the issue right here, nor ought to it, however our presence has and continues to create an area for individuals to unravel these issues. It creates an area with the Kurds, the Christians, the Muslims, the Azd are working collectively they usually’re working collectively fairly nicely right here within the SDF-controlled space.”
