Syria’s rulers need state management over all weapons | EUROtoday

All armed teams in Syria ought to announce their dissolution: militia chief al-Sharaa has publicly introduced this. There ought to be no weapons exterior of state management. He additionally desires to scale back affect in Lebanon.

Syria’s new rulers wish to place all weapons within the nation beneath state management. The head of the Islamist militia Hajat Tahrir al-Shams (HTS), Ahmed al-Sharaa, stated at a press convention with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan that each one armed teams in Syria would quickly “announce their dissolution” and be part of the military.

The HTS militia won’t permit “weapons outside of state control to exist in the country” – together with in areas beneath the management of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). At the identical time, al-Sharaa introduced that it could announce the brand new construction of the Syrian armed forces within the subsequent few days.

Less affect in Lebanon sooner or later

The chief of the Islamist militia had beforehand declared that Syria would drastically scale back its affect in Lebanon. Damascus will now not “interfere negatively in Lebanon’s affairs,” al-Sharaa stated at a gathering with senior representatives of Lebanon’s Druze minority. The new Syrian management respects “Lebanon’s sovereignty, the unity of its territory, the independence of its decisions and its security stability.”

The assembly between the HTS chief and the Druze leaders Walid and Tajmur Jumblatt occurred on the presidential palace in Damascus. Syria will stay “at an equal distance from all” sides in Lebanon, emphasised al-Sharaa. At the identical time, he admitted that Syria had thus far been a “source of fear and concern” for the neighboring nation.

Syria was energetic in Lebanon for a very long time

Walid Jumblatt has lengthy been thought-about a pointy critic of the deposed former Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad. Among different issues, he accuses the Syrian authorities of being liable for the homicide of his father in 1977 through the civil warfare in Lebanon.

The Syrian military invaded Lebanon in 1976 as a part of Arab forces to finish the civil warfare that had damaged on the market a 12 months earlier. Instead, Syrian troops remained current within the neighboring nation till their withdrawal in 2005, the place pro-Syrian teams such because the Hezbollah militia from then on dominated all areas of political and army life. The full withdrawal of the Syrian military lastly occurred within the face of mass opposition protests in Lebanon and nice worldwide stress.

The opposition in Lebanon accused Damascus and Hezbollah of being, amongst different issues, behind the assassination try on the favored Lebanese former prime minister Rafik Hariri.

Iran expects it to occur once more Resistance wrestle

Iran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, expects a renewed resistance wrestle by Syrians in opposition to the brand new constructions within the nation following the change of energy in Syria. “We assume that a strong group will form again in Syria,” Khamenei stated at a spiritual ceremony in Tehran. The Syrian youth particularly will as soon as once more resist those that have repeatedly made their nation and their future unsure, the cleric stated, in response to the Isna information company.

The fall of long-time Syrian ruler Assad was a critical blow for Iran, which sees its function within the Middle East weakened consequently. Iran was one among Assad’s most essential allies. Syria’s former ruler has lengthy performed a strategic function for Tehran, significantly in unhindered arms deliveries to the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, which can also be energetic in Syria.