Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, each with divergent strategic interests, which have further contributed to the deepening internal crisis. If al-Sharaa remains persistent in his authoritarian approach, another civil war is possible.4/4

He seems to have forgotten why Syria fell into civil war in 2011 and is attempting to follow the same path as al-Assad. Third, there are many external players, including 3/

Second, the interim government in Damascus, under the leadership of al-Sharaa, is trying to follow the same policies as the al-Assad regime, advocating a centralized state based on ethnic exclusion in its internal politics.2/

A few hours ago, I had an interview with @bbcpersian regarding the atrocities against the Druze in Suweida, Syria. I highlighted that, first, we should remember that the HTS is composed of diverse groups and factions, often with divergent approaches to different issues.1/

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🧵Today marks an historic day for us, the Kurds and other people in the Middle East. Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the PKK, called for the disarmament and dissolution of the PKK. There are arguments both for and against this call. 1/

The enforcement of the death penalty for Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish social worker from Eastern Kurdistan (northwest Iran) who has spent many years assisting women in Syria and Iraq during the war against ISIS, is imminent. The Iranian Supreme Court has rejected all evidence proving that Pakhshan’s👇🏽

Would probably be better of her to just say that the EU is providing €1 billion for Erdogan to wipe out the Kurds from their homeland. Anything to send the Syrian refugees back home, huh?

truly accept: we both know that decisions about justice are made in human discussions only when both sides are under equal compulsion. But when one side is stronger, it gets as much as it can, and the weak must accept that.” (p. 103)👇

Below is an excerpt from ‘The Melian Dialogue’ in Thucydides’s “History of the Peloponnesian War.” For us following the events in Rojava, I think the Athenians' claims are similar to those of the Turkish state and Hakan Fidan’s recent statement that the YPG must either dissolve itself or be👇

#Kobane is under imminent threat of a Turkish military invasion. Turkey once used #ISIS to try to conquer Kobane in 2014, which failed. Now, it uses its Islamist militias known as the #SNA.👇

Defending #Rojava is both politically and morally essential. The Kurds in Rojava were the forces that led the war against ISIS, a threat to human dignity on an international scale. The Kurds not only liberated the Kurdish region in Syria but also sacrificed many young lives in Raqqa, the👇🧵

Let’s celebrate today in solidarity with the revolutionary struggle and resistance of the women of #Rojava. Let’s unite to defend Rojava and the #DAANES, a beacon of hope for liberating life from the interlocked forms of power in the Middle East.

Today marks the fall of another dictator in the Middle East. The Syrian state, particularly the Ba’ath regime, has suppressed non-Arab, non-Shia communities since the late 1940s. For example, in 1962, 120,000 Kurds were stripped of their citizenship, a number that grew to 300,000 by 2010. 🧵👇