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Media: Former Foreign Allies Become Threat to Syrian President
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa may be overthrown by foreign Islamists who helped him come to power. This was reported on May 31 by The Washington Post.

The threat comes from the thousands of armed men who helped al-Sharaa overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, many of whom are Islamists from Europe and Central Asia.
Ah. The reporter means the allied jihadi groups, not the government of Turkey.
Al-Sharaa appointed some of them to senior positions in the Defense Ministry, hoping that ordinary soldiers would be able to obtain Syrian citizenship. These plans were thwarted by demands put forward by Washington. The foreigners must leave Syria - under these conditions, US President Donald Trump promised to ease sanctions against the republic.

Some of these radical Sunni Muslims from al-Sharaa's entourage are already causing him problems, the newspaper notes. The blood of hundreds of members of the Alawite religious minority is on their hands. At the same time, the most radical of them are already openly irritated by the fact that their former comrade-in-arms al-Sharaa has still not introduced Sharia law in Syria.

There are currently 5,000 foreign armed Islamists remaining in Syria. Many of them are integrated into local communities, especially in the northwest, and are married to Syrian wives with children who are growing up in Syria.


Posted by: badanov 2025-06-01
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