Can the new Syria keep it together? Massacres prompt fears of return to civil war

François PICARD | Rebecca GNIGNATI | Elisa AMIRI | Ilayda HABIP | Aghiad GHANEM | Farah YOUSSEF | Zineb RIBOUA | Joshua LANDIS

Edité par France 24

And what’s the next move by new strongman Ahmed al-Sharaa? The jihadist militia leader who’s traded in his fatigues for a suit and promised the outside world justice and respect for minority rights. Enough for the West to begin a desperately-needed easing of sanctions. Have the likes of the European Union moved too slowly or too fast?

And how will al-Sharaa navigate between his own alliance of forces that include Turkey-backed militias which contributed to the overthrow of Assad but could pose a threat to the central authority in Damascus, the US-backed Kurds who want federalism, and the Russians who want to keep their Mediterranean bases? Not to mention Israel, which rejected overtures of détente and for the moment occupies more land in the Golan Heights

Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Elisa Amiri, Ilayda Habip.

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