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JL;DR SUMMARY Gilad Halpern hosts Dr. Ido Yahel to discuss the pivotal transition in Syria's leadership from Bashar al-Assad to Ahmad al-Shahra, known as al-Julani, and the implications of this shift. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Middle EastTurkeySyriaCivil WarIsisDruzeBashar Al AssadAhmad Al ShahraAl JulaniIdlib

Places mentioned

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Hello and welcome to the Tel Aviv Review."
Syria
"He specializes in modern Syria, a country that for the past six months has been at a crossroads."
Idlib, Syria
"And we knew that he has a very powerful grip in the north-western sides of Syria, in Idlib, which is a part of Syria which borders the Turkish-Syrian border."
Damascus, Syria
"we didn't realize how weak his grip in areas which was quite on the margins, like the south, in Daraa, and Sueda, the Druze, part of the Syria."
North Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan
"between in Syria, that was run by Russia, Iran, and Turkey, in, started in Astana, in Kazakhstan."
Suweida, Quneitra, Syria
"And there was some manifestation that we didn't see for years, like breaking Assad statues and breaking into the Ba'ath headquarters in Sueda and vandalizing it."
Russian Federation
"Bashar al-Assad will be in Russia, and Hayat al-Hirasham, the organization that Hashara leads, will be in control of not all of the country."
Aleppo, Syria
"If you ask me if I was surprised it didn't happen before, look, the conventional wisdom, everyone agrees about it, that after the Battle of Aleppo was won."
United States
"So if you remember at the beginning of 2024, the Shiite militias, in Iraq attacked U.S. bases in Syria."
Aleppo, Syria
"And he appointed the governor of Aleppo, who was able to crush the Aleppo rebellion."

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