In today’s live stream, I host Matthew Murphy and Kamal Alam for a deep dive into the shadow war over Syria, ISIS, Christianity and the future of the region.
Matthew Murphy is a retired US Army Green Beret, Special Forces Sniper and Unconventional Warfare expert. He served in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, speaks Levantine and Modern Standard Arabic, and went on to found Operation Light Shine, a non-profit combating human trafficking and pedophilia. He later became President of the Sentinel Foundation before moving full-time into private military and intelligence contracting.
Kamal Alam is a Syrian military historian specializing in contemporary Middle Eastern warfare. He was a Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) from 2015–2019, is a Fellow for Syrian Affairs at The Institute for Statecraft, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He has advised the British Army’s Chief of Defence Staff on Middle East and Afghanistan, and has been involved in Saudi–Pakistan–Syria security dialogue during the war.
Together, we discuss:
• US involvement in Syria – from official policy to covert operations
• The covert war against the Assad state and why Matthew says: “we created ISIS.”
• Fighting ISIS alongside the Free Syrian Army and the Kurdish YPG – what it looked like on the ground
• The Battle of Khasham: US forces vs Wagner Group – escalation, red lines and what it signaled to Moscow
• Current events: Greater Israel, Gaza, genocide, Israel’s influence in US politics, and the role of religion
• The war on Christianity in the Middle East and increasingly in the West
• How ignorant British policy inflamed the war in Syria
• Kissinger’s prophecy fulfilled in Syria – what Kamal wrote about in War on the Rocks, and how Damascus became central again to war and peace in the region
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