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[00:00:00] From the beginning of my ministry
[00:00:02] even with this proposal that you
[00:00:05] are adopting, please Dr. Ahmed, wait, wait,
[00:00:09] wait, what I want to reach is that the word
[00:00:12] "advisor" is not necessarily an administrative position
[00:00:15] or a consultative position in the sense
[00:00:19] of absolute consultation, but rather it is a position
[00:00:23] that combines maintaining
[00:00:25] family ties among
[00:00:29] people. This is among the components of the Syrian
[00:00:32] people, also in relation to resolving
[00:00:35] difficult problems on the ground.
[00:00:39] This is the basis of this story, and our assessment is that this
[00:00:43] appointment is a political appointment with
[00:00:47] and international scene. social backgrounds for major, difficult
[00:00:50] problems now, especially after the Jordanian
[00:00:53] crisis. We do not want to digress much
[00:00:57] and escalate the problems.
[00:01:00] Since
[00:01:03] uh, I must conclude, Dr. Ahmed, Dr. Ahmed, I must conclude. Just give me
[00:01:07] an answer. Do you think that
[00:01:10] But the will does the executive scope and the files entrusted to Ms. Muzna do not relate
[00:01:13] and hope does only to Suwayda, meaning Jordan and other than Jordan, and relations with
[00:01:16] Israel, or is it only for Suwayda, as you mentioned at the beginning? Yes, I
[00:01:21] which is Pakistan? What is the danger of that believe that the selection of this person, regardless of the controversy
[00:01:25] that occurred, can play
[00:01:27] army in the world, or at multiple roles in many
[00:01:31] coup to prevent , many files, and I reiterate
[00:01:34] that the essence of this appointment is that she is from Suwayda and from the Al-Atrash
[00:01:38] family. Why don't you take this into
[00:01:40] consideration, and she is also Asmahan's granddaughter.
[00:01:44] Thank you very much. Okay, okay, thank you very much,
[00:01:48] Dr. Ahmed Tuma, the politician and academic
[00:01:51] that we count on could not counter Israeli from Damascus, and my thanks to Professor Bassam Al-Amadi, the former Syrian ambassador in
[00:01:54] Colonel Hisham Mustafa. Yesterday, Sweden, who was with us from Rome.
[00:01:58] indeed moving towards achieving unity with We continue with you on Syria Today, and after the break, we discuss how Damascus will build
[00:02:02] its military capabilities amidst escalating
[00:02:08] the Israeli planes flying in tensions.
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[00:03:02] it get S-400 missiles from picture. homes in
[00:03:09] We are sitting inside and someone is crying here. By God, we hear the pain
[00:03:13] of the bones that are
[00:03:15] breaking.
[00:03:23] Every blanket I smell, I feel that there is blood
[00:03:27] mixed with the smell of humans.
[00:03:32] Torture, you literally don't know if you will return alive or
[00:03:35] dead.
[00:03:42] I remember hearing the gray hair cracking
[00:03:43] in my head.
[00:03:47] To this The soul that is tortured surroundings. is the one
[00:03:58] is broader than dots have been connected, that does not leave.
[00:04:08] the political and diplomatic possesses are assets that
[00:04:14] Questions are increasing regarding the future of the country's security
[00:04:18] and military and the opportunities to build the capabilities of the Syrian Army,
[00:04:21] especially with the increase in external aerial violations,
[00:04:25] especially the violations of the Israeli occupation, which has increased
[00:04:28] its aerial sorties and ground incursions.
[00:04:32] Despite the lifting of American sanctions, there is still
[00:04:35] ambiguity regarding
[00:04:37] that can deter this. the paths that Damascus is following in building defensive
[00:04:41] and military capabilities, as well as regarding the challenges
[00:04:45] facing Syria, with the exception of the relationship with Turkey and its support for security
[00:04:48] capabilities. It is not yet clear whether there are
[00:04:51] other countries that can be relied upon in arming
[00:04:54] Syria.
[00:04:58] Unknown aircraft in southern Syria and unknown
[00:05:02] explosions. No one knows what happened on Sunday
[00:05:05] evening and at different times.
[00:05:08] I swear to God Almighty. And with the absence of official
[00:05:11] statements. Regarding the interpretation of some events, narratives
[00:05:14] and stories are crowding social media
[00:05:18] after every sound is heard, but this brings to
[00:05:21] the forefront many questions about Syria's defensive capabilities
[00:05:25] and what it possesses in terms of detecting
[00:05:28] and tracking attacks.
[00:05:32] The series of Israeli targeting that affected
[00:05:35] airports and military air bases in Syria, the last of which
[00:05:39] was in August last year when the runway
[00:05:42] of Abu al-Dhuhour military airport in the eastern Idlib countryside was targeted, as well as
[00:05:46] the Jordanian attacks in southern Syria recently, all of this puts
[00:05:50] Syria in a major dilemma that is difficult to solve with
[00:05:53] the complexities of the regional
[00:05:59] On the political front, diplomacy is moving to Ankara,
[00:06:03] Riyadh and Arab and Western capitals,
[00:06:06] and once reached Pakistan, and although its goals are obscure
[00:06:10] to the public, it indicates that among
[00:06:13] its headlines is the search for a solution to the arming
[00:06:17] and defense crisis.
[00:06:21] And in front of the equation of rapprochement between Damascus and Washington,
[00:06:24] and between Damascus and European capitals, the complexities
[00:06:27] of any military rapprochement with Moscow and Beijing
[00:06:31] appear, while Israel fights to prevent any military presence or support
[00:06:35] for the new Syria. So how does Damascus move
[00:06:38] to overcome these complexities, and what are the most appropriate options
[00:06:41] for building and what are the repercussions of the failure
[00:06:45] to build these capabilities on the future of the country?
[00:06:49] For discussion,
[00:06:51] I have Colonel Hisham Mustafa, military and strategic expert,
[00:06:55] live from Aleppo. Welcome, and I have Dr.
[00:06:58] Muhammad Bakr, writer on political affairs, live
[00:07:01] from Berlin. Welcome to you as well. I start with
[00:07:06] we heard about unknown air sorties, and it is still not known
[00:07:10] who is behind them.
[00:07:12] Over Daraa. This is in addition to the repeated Israeli
[00:07:16] incursions and violations, and also
[00:07:20] Syrian skies.
[00:07:23] implications of that for Syrian air defenses, Colonel
[00:07:26] Hisham?
[00:07:29] Good evening, Professor Alaa, good evening to the viewers of Syria
[00:07:33] TV, and good evening to your esteemed guest. Of course, we know very
[00:07:36] well that Israel, after the fall of Bashar
[00:07:40] al-Assad's regime by a few hours,
[00:07:43] carried out a fierce air campaign
[00:07:46] aimed at destroying
[00:07:49] the greater part of the capabilities
[00:07:52] of the army, which, of course,
[00:07:55] targeted airports, targeted air defense systems, targeted
[00:07:59] many weapon and equipment
[00:08:02] storage centers that the fallen regime's
[00:08:04] army owned, and which belong
[00:08:07] to the Syrian people. These attacks were
[00:08:11] continuous and occurred repeatedly after
[00:08:15] the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, and therefore
[00:08:17] deprived the Syrian Arab Republic of its defensive
[00:08:20] capabilities to a large
[00:08:23] extent. This resulted in
[00:08:26] the Israeli arrogance
[00:08:30] without any ability from
[00:08:33] the Syrian army to counter
[00:08:36] the Israeli air superiority. We all know that all anti-aircraft
[00:08:40] missiles were destroyed or, before the fall of Assad's
[00:08:43] regime, they were
[00:08:46] smuggled in one way or another
[00:08:49] to Hezbollah through the Lebanese-Syrian
[00:08:53] borders, as well as what
[00:08:56] I mean does this mean that Syria today is unable
[00:09:00] to detect enemy aircraft and track them?
[00:09:03] I mean, it does not have radars, in simpler
[00:09:07] popular terms. It does have radars, but
[00:09:10] madam, what is the point of radars if there are no air defense assets?
[00:09:14] The air defense assets that the Syrian Arab Army currently
[00:09:20] cannot rise to the level of protecting
[00:09:22] Syrian airspace from
[00:09:26] Israeli air sorties. No, I mean, it is not
[00:09:30] possible to think that Syria has air defense capabilities that can
[00:09:34] counter Israeli
[00:09:37] aircraft that violate Syrian
[00:09:40] airspace in a
[00:09:42] semi-repeated manner. It is not
[00:09:46] possible to imagine that there are capabilities
[00:09:50] There are no capabilities that can deter these
[00:09:53] incursions, but there is a question, what are the available capabilities?
[00:09:57] Well, the available capabilities,
[00:10:00] as far as I know, are simple
[00:10:04] capabilities, meaning anti-aircraft defenses that are not developed
[00:10:08] enough to be able to counter
[00:10:11] the Israeli weapon, which
[00:10:15] is a very advanced American weapon. Countries that possess
[00:10:17] an arsenal of air defense systems
[00:10:21] have failed to shoot down these
[00:10:25] planes or
[00:10:27] prevent them from penetrating. No, the question is not about Syria's ability to
[00:10:31] shoot down these planes, Colonel Hisham, but the question
[00:10:35] is about, I mean, where has the
[00:10:37] Syrian Army's capability reached, or where is
[00:10:41] it now? What does the Syrian Army possess? I mean, these are questions I know
[00:10:45] are difficult to answer, but these are also questions
[00:10:48] that arise: what remains today, what should be built
[00:10:51] upon regarding the capabilities of the Syrian Army?
[00:10:55] Ms. Alaa, these answers are not difficult to answer.
[00:10:59] Any expert can answer them. We all know
[00:11:02] that the Syrian Army, after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime,
[00:11:06] had all centers
[00:11:10] of power that were considered
[00:11:13] to have qualitative weapons, somewhat,
[00:11:15] such as MiG aircraft and helicopter
[00:11:18] aircraft,
[00:11:20] and also some missiles that remained
[00:11:24] from the era of the defunct regime after cutting off artillery, after cutting off tanks,
[00:11:28] I mean, but today, if
[00:11:31] we want to speak accurately, even the capabilities of the regime's
[00:11:34] army were not those good
[00:11:38] capabilities. The support was
[00:11:41] Russia, and the combat doctrine in Syria was the doctrine of the former
[00:11:44] Soviet Union, and later Russia's doctrine.
[00:11:47] And Russia is known for not giving any
[00:11:52] least let's say it was not giving the Syrian
[00:11:56] Army, the regime's army, advanced capabilities
[00:11:59] that could surpass Israel. I mean, there
[00:12:03] was a veto on giving certain types of weapons, and therefore all
[00:12:06] the weapons that were given to the regime's army during the era of the fallen
[00:12:09] criminal Bashar al-Assad's regime were considered to be of the third
[00:12:13] or fourth level, and therefore
[00:12:16] aircraft. In recent times, Syria even obtained
[00:12:20] S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. Despite this delay
[00:12:23] and shortcomings in arming the former Syrian
[00:12:27] regime's army, Israel or the Israeli occupation
[00:12:30] state was keen to destroy and target many
[00:12:34] military sites. Why or what was being targeted?
[00:12:37] Of course, of course, I mean, I am not saying
[00:12:41] that the capabilities were so bad that they were non-existent,
[00:12:43] otherwise Israel would not
[00:12:46] have bothered to destroy
[00:12:49] these capabilities. They are capabilities that are not good,
[00:12:53] but they are not so bad counter,
[00:12:57] I mean, today we can counter aircraft and raise their altitude
[00:13:00] if they try to fly low.
[00:13:03] They can , the army can
[00:13:06] raise these aircraft and, I mean,
[00:13:09] force them to fly at high altitudes
[00:13:13] with ground anti-aircraft machine guns, madam.
[00:13:16] I want to reach a point. You had
[00:13:20] a question that you did not answer.
[00:13:23] You said how can we develop this capability?
[00:13:27] I will come to you, I will come to you about the issue of development
[00:13:30] in a moment. Dr. Mohamed, my guest pointed
[00:13:34] out that the Syrian army previously was armed
[00:13:37] by Russia and also had a Russian
[00:13:41] or, I mean, Eastern doctrine, as it is said. Today,
[00:13:44] how can the absence of Russia
[00:13:47] from the equation of arming the Syrian army be compensated?
[00:13:50] Where should Damascus turn?
[00:13:54] Yes, first of all, greetings to you, your guest, and the viewers of Syria
[00:13:57] TV. I believe that today, two years after the liberation
[00:14:01] almost, and after the Syrian presidency positioned itself
[00:14:05] in a specific political camp, and this is its right, I mean,
[00:14:08] it was unnatural for it to remain in the same
[00:14:12] camps that the former or fallen regime
[00:14:15] was in. But today, I think after two years, the
[00:14:19] and the options have become clearer
[00:14:23] for the Syrian leadership.
[00:14:25] When the Syrian presidency went towards Washington
[00:14:28] and opened
[00:14:33] horizon with President Trump specifically,
[00:14:36] these visits did not reflect anything on the ground.
[00:14:39] Their political and even military outcome
[00:14:43] was zero. All the American blessings
[00:14:46] for President Ahmed Al-Shara's accession to the presidency and all the descriptions
[00:14:50] that Trump described President Al-Shara with ultimately
[00:14:54] had no effect on the ground. Today,
[00:14:57] you asked how to compensate for Russia's absence.
[00:15:00] I believe after this political experience that
[00:15:03] the Syrian presidency went through, the greatest compensation
[00:15:06] for Russia's absence is by returning to the Russians,
[00:15:09] because today you are talking about great
[00:15:12] challenges.
[00:15:14] This is the only option, and I will
[00:15:18] tell you why it is the only option today.
[00:15:21] Turkey played an important regional role
[00:15:25] in assisting the current Syrian state and in assisting President
[00:15:28] Al-Shara personally in reaching the presidency, but this also did not
[00:15:32] have real effects in the equation
[00:15:35] of confrontation with Israel. And you know that Turkey,
[00:15:39] Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia signed the Mecca Alliance
[00:15:43] agreement, and today Saudi Arabia is subjected to
[00:15:46] Iranian shelling, and Iranian missiles reach
[00:15:49] inside Saudi Arabia. What has the Mecca Alliance done?
[00:15:53] Nothing. I mean, it is not expected even if it was said
[00:15:56] that Syria joined the Mecca Alliance, what
[00:15:59] would be the effects of this alliance inside Syria? I mean, what is the point of talking, as
[00:16:03] you mentioned, this point, what is the point of talking about the possibility of Syria joining
[00:16:07] the Mecca Alliance in order to build its military capabilities?
[00:16:11] Today we are talking, as your guest
[00:16:15] said, about Israeli hooliganism,
[00:16:18] a complete hooliganism. Today, Syrian sovereignty
[00:16:22] has been violated. If everything that has happened is patience within
[00:16:26] the framework of strategic patience, then I
[00:16:29] believe the time has come for this patience to run out. Today, the Syrian
[00:16:33] presidency must move towards effective
[00:16:36] options towards Russia, and it knows
[00:16:39] that very well, and you know that military
[00:16:43] meetings took place last year, specifically in
[00:16:46] October, in December 2025, how the Syrian Chief of Staff Ali
[00:16:50] Al-Nassab met, but what is the danger of turning to Russia or to China also,
[00:16:53] as was reported in some news through an intermediary,
[00:16:59] also to the political relations that Syria tried to weave in the previous
[00:17:02] period?
[00:17:04] I mean, do we talk about whether the matter rises
[00:17:08] to danger? If the current alliances of the Syrian
[00:17:11] presidency with the United States of America, specifically with
[00:17:15] Trump, and if the alliances with on the regional
[00:17:18] and Arab level had yielded results during the past
[00:17:21] two years, we would be talking about a level of deterrence
[00:17:25] and about big rejections offered by these allies
[00:17:29] positioning with in the alliance, if they had yielded real
[00:17:32] deterrence towards Israel, we would have
[00:17:36] talked about danger if the Syrian presidency had turned
[00:17:39] towards other options. But as I told you, this
[00:17:43] relationship and this American praise today cannot
[00:17:46] deter Israel with strong political
[00:17:49] speeches. Netanyahu cannot be deterred by this,
[00:17:53] Colonel Hisham. I want to conclude with you and hear your comment
[00:17:58] political flirtation between the new Syria
[00:18:00] and the United States of America is in vain,
[00:18:04] so we must return to Moscow. What is your opinion?
[00:18:19] regime, which was considered a very important
[00:18:23] depth, what did it achieve? It was able
[00:18:26] to remain in power for 14 years despite all
[00:18:29] the massacres, thanks to Russian and Iranian support. What
[00:18:33] did it get? Did
[00:18:36] it get any quality? Did
[00:18:40] the Russians? Did it get advanced aircraft?
[00:18:43] I mean, it didn't get it. Yes, there was support, and because of international
[00:18:47] understandings, it was able to remain in power
[00:18:50] for 50 years, him and his father. This cannot
[00:18:53] be denied, but I am speaking here from a military
[00:18:56] perspective. I was an officer in the former
[00:19:00] regime's army before I defected from it. I know
[00:19:03] the capabilities of this army even before the Syrian
[00:19:06] revolution. I mean, you do not agree with my guest, Dr. Mohamed,
[00:19:10] regarding, yes, it cannot, it cannot,
[00:19:13] and Russia today cannot support this army
[00:19:16] because there are directives in the Ministry
[00:19:20] of Defense today towards its Arab
[00:19:25] We should not think or believe
[00:19:28] that what happened through communication with the United
[00:19:31] States of America must be harvested immediately. We will harvest
[00:19:35] these fruits.
[00:19:37] The current approach, Colonel Hisham Mustafa, military
[00:19:40] and strategic expert from Aleppo, thank you very much. I thank Dr. Mohamed Bakr,
[00:19:44] writer on political affairs, who was with us from
[00:19:47] Berlin.
[00:19:49] Our thanks to you, dear viewers, for your kind متابعة. Syria
[00:19:53] Today ends. Goodbye.
[00:30:33] Welcome, viewers, to this news hour from Syria
[00:30:36] TV, and the headlines
[00:30:38] begin.
[00:30:42] Internal security deployed in Al-Sawa'iq neighborhood in Hama after
[00:30:46] clashes between two families and arrested a number of
[00:30:50] those involved.
[00:30:56] Israeli occupation forces.