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PREVIEW: "NEW SYRIA" Colleague Jonathan Schanzer presents the puzzle pieces of the "New Syria": violence and handshakes, cut throats and promises. More to come.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: "NEW SYRIA" Colleague Jonathan Schanzer presents the puzzle pieces of the "New Syria": violence and handshakes, cut throats and promises. More to come.
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This is John Batchelor, conversation with Jonathan Shanzer, Executive Director of Foundation

1:01.8

for the Defense of Democracy, about the tangle that is Syria, the darkness visible of the

1:08.4

Levant. Jonathan asked the major question, and I repeat it, is this a new Syria, or is this ISIS

1:18.4

with a mask?

1:20.1

Is this al-Qaeda with a frontman, Al-Shara?

1:25.0

Here's Jonathan to explain.

1:28.0

Much ahead and much tonight.

1:30.8

Yeah, and I think this is the big question, and I think we don't know how to answer all

1:35.2

of it yet.

1:35.6

You got to remember that Abu Muhammad al-Jalani used to run the Nusra front.

1:40.6

And right now, as we understand it, there are a lot of figures, foreign fighters, that have now

1:46.3

gone on to populate key positions in the Syrian government. This is an organization, the Nusra

1:53.0

Front, now known as HTS, that both runs Syria, but also once collaborated with the Islamic State. They took part in some of the massacres.

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