How the Syrian Government Helped Create Islamic State
And kept it afloat by buying its oil.
July 23, 2021
How the Syrian Government Helped Create Islamic State
And kept it afloat by buying its oil.
According to apologists of Bashar al-Assad, and those they have managed to dupe, he has been making war for the past ten years against terrorists, and any Western attempt to engineer his ouster would be to let the terrorists win. But in fact Assad did much to help Islamic State (IS) come into being, and to keep it alive. Matthew Levitt writes:
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