2: HEADLINE: Released Palestinian Prisoners and Mideast Instability GUEST NAMES: Ahmad Sharawi, Bill Roggio SUMMARY: Ahmad Sharawi and Bill Roggio discuss the risks associated with Israel's release of nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including senior Hama
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 October 2025
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| 0:24.1 | I'm John Batson with my colleagues Bill Rajo, the senior fellow for the Foundation of |
| 0:27.8 | Defense of Democracies, and his colleague, Ahmed Shirawi, watching Syria especially. |
| 0:34.3 | Al-Sahar's return from the United Nations General Assembly, a triumph for him overseas. |
| 0:39.3 | What do we know about his immediate activities in Damascus? |
| 0:42.3 | What is the state of Syria now that Shara is blessed by his regional partners? |
| 0:48.3 | So what's currently, I mean, the most recent development, there were clashes between the Syrian |
| 0:55.4 | government and Kurdish forces last week, where the U.S. intervened and secured the ceasefire |
| 1:05.1 | between the two forces. |
| 1:07.5 | Indicate, I mean, the latest reports are that the SDF, which is a Kurdish-led coalition, |
| 1:13.6 | these guys were, I mean, have collaborated our US allies and collaborated with the US in defeating the Islamic State. |
| 1:20.6 | They control about 30% of northeast Syria. |
| 1:24.6 | There's indications that they're willing to integrate into the Syrian military. |
| 1:29.0 | There's been active discussions between both Damascus and the SDF to integrate. And there's |
| 1:35.7 | positive signs that they've reached an agreement. And why do I say positive? Because if there's |
| 1:41.9 | a war between the Syrian government |
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