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World War in Syria: Global Conflict on Middle Eastern Battlefields
by AB Abrams
Clarity Press, £19.57
THIS remarkable book sheds fresh light on the ongoing conflict in Syria and presents evidence that this is no civil war but is in fact a war of aggression by Nato powers and its allies.
By the end of 2009, the governments of Britain, the US, France, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, and Jordan had all begun preparing operations to forcefully topple the Syrian government.
All deployed special forces into Syrian territory to support anti-government forces from the war’s outset.
All these governments armed, trained, and financed the al-Qaida-linked rebels.
As the US Defence Intelligence Agency admitted in 2012: “Salafist, Muslim Brotherhood and AQI [al-Qaida]” were “the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.”
In September 2015 the Syrian government invited Russian forces to assist it in defending the country.
As Abrams observes: “Unlike the Western and Turkish military presences on Syrian soil, which lacked either UN authorisation or the permission of the Syrian government, meaning they were illegal, Russia had received Syrian permission to deploy its forces.”
Abrams notes that “on April 14 [2018] France, Britain and the US again bypassed the UN to launch another attack on Syrian government positions, without provocation or UN authorisation. The EU supported this illegal assault.”
Abrams points out that “Sending one’s military to occupy a UN member state’s oil fields, and keep its revenues represented yet another serious violation of international law.”
In 2020 the US passed the Caesar Act which threatened sanctions on any foreign company which participated in reconstruction efforts in Syria. The EU also banned any reconstruction assistance.
In 2021, “significant parts of Syrian territory in the north [Idlib] and northeast [Raqqa] were still occupied by the US and Turkey respectively.
“Each of these areas hosted Islamist insurgent groups under the protection of Nato,” writes Abrams.
James Jeffrey, US special envoy for Syria, called the al-Qaida-linked groups in Syria’s Idlib governate an “asset.”
Will Podmore
