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This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Bachelor.

Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins me as my colleague and co-host because we're very pleased to speak to one of the regular filers on Long War Journal about the conflict zones in and around Israel, the arms of the octopus, Iran being the brain.

We begin with Syria, however, because it's very difficult to see.

Syria is darkness visible, has been for more than a decade, and yet, Ahmed, a very good evening to you. Contrasting headlines, Bill and I

have looked at in these last hours. One, Reuters reporting, Syria can go 1% GDP in 25, continuing on

the idea that is brought in from the cold to be with the community of nations in trade.

The other is IDF apprehends a terror cell associated with Al-Quds in southern Syria.

You've reported previously about the bad actors in and around Damascus, gunfights with

the Druze, gunfights on the coast with the Alawites over the last weeks.

So what is your measure right now of Al-Shara and Damascus

and its attempt to bring authority and discipline to the Syrian civil war?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John.

So to start off, I think Shara has, one of his major challenges was to ensure that there's

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