Good evening. The show begins tonight in Sentcom, targeting an al-Qaeda military commander in Idlib province, northwestern Syria.

This follows three other strikes against facilitators, financiers, in Idlib of Al-Qaeda.

And Biden administration, Bill Rajel reminds me, attacked ISIS in Idlib of al-Qaeda. And Biden administration, Bill Rajel reminds me, attacked ISIS in Idlib.

This is al-Qaeda.

Why that's of significance is that al-Qaeda is what the man Al-Shara, who now claims to be

the leader in Syria and Damascus, Al-Sharra was before he put on a good Italian suit,

trimmed his beard, and presented himself as a world leader. Does this mean Bill Rajo asked

that Sengom regards Al-Sharra as a target, a former military commander who imposed Sharia law

on his part of Idlib.

It also suggests the new administration will look very poorly on the al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan,

permitted Vosav to profited from by the Taliban in Kabul.

We then turn on to the question of Syria in general,

and what we can make of the deployment of major powers in Syria,

there is the suggestion that Syria will be fractionalized,

federalized is the polite way of putting it,

so that there's a U.S. sphere of influence, a Russian sphere of influence,

and Israeli sphere of influence, and a Turkish sphere of influence.

And in between are the jihadists or reform jihadists.

Moving on, Bill Raja and I talk to John Hardy of the FDD about the battlefield

that will quickly turn into the negotiating table for the powers, Russia, China, and the United States

in some fashion, bring in the European middle powers, and everybody will be looking at

the same battle space.

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