politics
March 29, 2026
US worked with terrorist groups in Syria on Israel’s behalf
Washington had worked “directly” with Al-Qaeda and ISIS to topple Syria’s Bashar Assad on Israel’s behalf
TL;DR
- Former US counterterrorism chief Joe Kent claims the US worked with Al-Qaeda and IS to topple Bashar Assad.
- Kent alleges these operations were conducted on behalf of Israel, citing the Second Iraq War and the Syrian Civil War as precursors.
- He stated that the most effective initial fighters in Syria were Al-Qaeda and later IS, supported by US operations.
- Kent suggests that IS eventually became uncontrollable, necessitating a US intervention against the group it had initially supported.
- The article mentions that the fall of Assad's government led to an Islamist takeover by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Al-Qaeda offshoot.
- Kent criticized the Trump administration for recognizing the legitimacy of Ahmed al-Sharaa, a leader of HTS with a history of terrorism.
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