“U.S. no longer has any strategy against Iran in Syria” – Analyst
Washington – North-Press Agency
Hadeel Oueiss
Journalist and Middle East affairs analyst Seth Frantzman told North-Press that, the United States withdrawal from most of the areas in Syria; in addition to its effect on the U.S. influence on the Syrian territories unquestionably confirms that, there is no longer any U.S. activity or strategy against Iran and its affiliated militias in Syria.
On the other hand, Frantzman wrote for the Jerusalem Post newspaper: "Turkey's attack on northeastern Syria is destroying the last remaining of the Syrian rebels".
Frantzman said the dubious mix of religious and nationalist extremists and the so-called "rabble", who appeared in the Turkish military invasion in Syria, and made them a spearhead in the campaign where very few and limited Turkish forces are involving, along with embarrassing scenes of killing civilians, looting houses, mutilations of dead bodies and slogans similar to those of the Islamic State (ISIS), and mortar fire at U.S. patrols and medical teams are a tragedy which ends the so-called "Syrian rebels" who "fought the Assad regime in the past".
"The tragedy of these those militants, who are barely able to carry out their missions in which Turkey forced them into the war in northern Syria, is increasing by releasing the captured Syrian soldiers and handing them to Russia", Frantzman said.
The article said that, what led the "rebels" to the fate of the "rabble" is "their failure to fight Assad and their failing Turkey's plans against Assad, which gave Turkey the idea of using them to fight what Turkey sees its personal enemy, i.e. People’s Protection Units (YPG).
"Between October 12 and 17, Turkish-backed armed groups involved in incidents, such as executing prisoners and mutilating bodies of Kurdish female fighters and calling them prostitutes, in addition to that, rebel imams issued fatwas issuing the killing of Kurds and capturing their women by accusing them of being infidels", he added.
"The Syrian rebels are now fully embracing the Turkish discourse describing the Kurds as terrorists, in line with a Turkish policy aimed primarily at getting rid of the Syrian refugees in Turkey and telling the international community that, it is doing what it is doing to send the refugees to a safe zone", Frantzman added.
The article concludes that, what is happening now in the Turkish campaign is paying a lot of the lives of these Syrian rebels, their reputation and the reputation of Turkey for nothing or for very little thing. Today, Turkey, which didn't care about fighting al-Qaeda, represented by HTS is sacrificing Damascus possibility of moving towards Idlib and seizing it. Frantzman explained that, Turkey isn't interested in presenting the Syrian armed opposition groups it supports in a good way to the world, because it is planning for a non- long-term role for those in the future Syria.