Evening Edition: Iraqi Militias Enter Syria As Conflict There Escalates

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The ongoing civil war in Syria has reached its thirteenth year and what looked to be a stalemate between rebel forces and those of President Bashar al-Assad has picked up in a big way. Rebel forces have taken a large swath of land in the Northwest of Syria including the city of Aleppo. In another concerning development Iraqi militias, backed by Iran, have entered Syria to help the government fight the rebels. FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with Dr. David Adesnik, a senior fellow and the director of research at Foundation of Defense of Democracies with a focus on Syria and Iran, about this escalation in the conflict and he explains the various groups involved. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm Tyrus. I'm Liz Clayman. I'm Greg Gerard. And this is the Fox News rundown.
0:09.0	Monday, December 2nd, 2024. I'm Evan Brown. Syria's civil war heats up with Islamist rebels
0:17.0	challenging the Assad regime and its chemical weapon stashes.
0:23.0	How does this affect the U.S.? We don't know how far the rebels are going to go.
0:24.9	The initial offensive was a huge surprise.
0:27.2	Could they get to places where chemical weapons are stored?
0:29.8	I don't know, but I would think the government has to consider if they do,
0:33.0	what is the American response?
0:34.5	This is the Fox News Rundown evening edition.
0:42.8	I'm Ben Dominic, Fox News contributor, editor at large of the spectator and editor of the
0:47.1	Transom.com daily newsletter.
0:49.1	I'm inviting you to join in-depth conversations every week on the Ben Dominich podcast.
0:53.6	Listen and follow now at Fox News Podcast.com.
0:57.4	Most Americans might not have remembered that the Syrian Arab Republic has been engaged in a civil war lasting roughly 13 years.
1:07.0	That conflict renewed itself this weekend as Syrian rebels allegedly gained control of the city of Aleppo, though their control of that city is disputed.
1:16.0	Syria's embattled ruler Bashar al-Assad is infamous for using ruthless means, as in chemical weapons, to quell this rebellion, as most people call these dissidents.
1:26.0	But Americans should know more about who these rebels are.
1:30.3	Assad himself is the remnant of the Ba'ath Party, which espoused a secular pan-Arab supremacy,
1:35.7	as was Saddam Hussein. Unlike Saddam, Assad is supported by the Iranian regime and its
1:41.8	terror proxy Hezbollah, but also the Russians. The rebels fighting
1:45.9	this dark alliance, however, are not who or what you might think when you hear the term
1:51.3	rebels. No, this is not Star Wars episode four with a noble rebellion led by Luke Han and
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FOX News Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of FOX News Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.