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Emerging Secrets Behind the Syrian Rebel Overthrow of Assad

Hezbollah’s sabotaged pagers, Ukrainian drones, paved way for HTS’ lightning-fast offensive

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Michael Isikoff
Dec 13, 2024
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IT WAS IN MID-SEPTEMBER WHEN, out of the blue, Mouaz Moustafa got a curious phone call from a Syrian rebel command post in Idlib. “We’re going  to do this,” a rebel spokesman told him: We’re going to mount an offensive  aimed, at long last, at toppling the government of President  Bashar Al-Assad.  

As executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Forc…

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