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00:00:00in the al-Tabani desert area in Deir ez-Zor, as well as in the Raqqa
00:00:03and Palmyra deserts and the desert in Homs, it was
00:00:07carried out under the name ISIS, but those who carried it out were
00:00:11Iranian agendas. This does not mean that ISIS is also a
00:00:14dangerous terrorist organization, but we
00:00:19fighting this should not limit this issue be addressed? the full responsibility for what is happening in Syria to
00:00:24negligence in this to delve into the issue of what happened in ISIS. No one, no one limits the full responsibility to ISIS,
00:00:27but we are discussing the issue of who,
00:00:30that is, who poses perhaps a greater danger than
00:00:33others. In my opinion, all
00:00:37those who did not like the overthrow of Bashar
00:00:41as long as the two countries are members of al-Assad's regime from the countries are now mobilizing their tools in Syria,
00:00:45including ISIS, and at the top of them is ISIS. Yes, I admit,
00:00:48as my colleagues pointed out, that ISIS poses the greatest
00:00:52armed formations in and most dangerous coalition, why was there no coordination on this threat currently, still feeds on the
00:00:55but this does not mean that Syria's presence in this we should turn a blind eye to the remnants crises that occur in the
00:00:59of the organizations. Regarding what happened in Deir ez-Zor,
00:01:03the liquidation of elements belonging to the Ministry
00:01:06of Defense exploited
00:01:09the presence of General Security patrols
00:01:12between members of this in areas far from
00:01:15this reality that human centers or population centers. Their presence there
00:01:19is considered a prize for
00:01:22ISIS. Today, ISIS, after it
00:01:25was defeated at
00:01:27And this also the level of the organization's control
00:01:30over vast lands in Syria or
00:01:32Iraq, this organization did not end, and its
00:01:36danger did not end. It resorted to what is called lone
00:01:39wolves and resorted to what are called sleeper cells that
00:01:43become active at the first opportunity and at the first
00:01:45malfunction, which may be unintentional by security, such
00:01:50facilities in as a patrol in the desert conducting reconnaissance or
00:01:54passing through,
00:01:57it will attack it. This is what
00:02:05at this
00:02:09much of
00:02:12happened in Deir ez-Zor and eastern Deir ez-Zor,
00:02:15along with the thwarting of an attempt to bomb
00:02:21that, of course, in the Homs refinery in a terrorist
00:02:22in order for it to overcome act. This also has implications that we
00:02:25should not ignore. Here,
00:02:30to cut off the path for certainly. Today, it suffers from weakness in the goal is to undermine the confidence of the Syrian street in the ability of its leadership to maintain security, as well as
00:02:34to harm the Syrian economy through bombing attempts carried out by terrorist
00:02:38organizations, whether those that tried
00:02:41to bomb the Homs refinery, which, thank God, were thwarted,
00:02:45or bombings at power stations, or bombings of oil
00:02:49pipelines. So here, this is a tactic
00:02:52and in the pictures published in that is not local, but rather
00:02:55comes with directives from
00:02:57International Day for Disaster countries that I told you do not want peace in Syria.
00:03:04Directorate carried out an evacuation Let me ask Mr. Diaa's opinion on this point.
00:03:06and first aid training. This is not a local tactic. The attempt
00:03:09to target the Homs refinery and target elements of the Ministry of Defense and other
00:03:13matters, this is not a local tactic, says
00:03:16the Homs refinery. And this does the colonel. Such tactics are known for
00:03:19ISIS, or does it adapt its operations
00:03:22and procedures based on the field situation and the prevailing circumstances?
00:03:27will occur in But so as not to go far
00:03:28station and some pipelines from into conspiracy theories, let's focus more on the threat. The terrorist and on what
00:03:31Damascus has done and what the Syrian reality
00:03:35imposes in terms of security challenges. You remember
00:03:39that the first dangerous and declared operation by ISIS after the fall
00:03:43of the regime, one day after, was announced by
00:03:46Damascus in cooperation with the international coalition. It
00:03:49was to target the shrine of Lady Zaynab. You certainly
00:03:52know that the shrine of Lady Zaynab was built upon Iranian narratives
00:03:56for intervention in Syria and defense of
00:04:00took place and what was circulated in the sanctities. Moreover, if you look at it at first glance from a security perspective,
00:04:03it is in Iran's interest for something to happen in that area to say,
00:04:07the Syrian intelligence service, which announced at least to its people, that "look, when I was expelled from
00:04:10Syria, what happened to the shrine happened, and what happened to this religious
00:04:13site happened." This is from my point of view. But ISIS is
00:04:18Jordan and others. Even in Iraq, in ISIS. Perhaps its interests may coincide with some parties. Perhaps
00:04:21it receives financial support in a certain direction. But ISIS, even during
00:04:25the regime's time, also targeted the regime and targeted
00:04:28the Russians, and even targeted the SDF
00:04:32and targeted everyone. This is a terrorist organization that targets everyone.
00:04:36But certainly, even with regard to operations
00:04:40even beyond and announcements, the organization itself used to carry out operations during
00:04:43periods of forced media silence, even in areas where it
00:04:47is being raised in terms of questions in this was present, such as in the SDF, or even in areas controlled by the regime, it did not announce that
00:04:51because it achieved
00:04:54our position, whether its goal in the end. It targeted
00:04:56additional support to fight this the point or target it wanted, and in the end, it did not want to reveal its intelligence sources.
00:05:00Today, to go back more and focus more on
00:05:04the ISIS threat, why should it be - and I emphasize
00:05:08the words of Mr. Sadeq Rashid Hourani - that it is
00:05:11allowed a kind of the primary security threat for local actors?
00:05:15We are not talking about external actors. We are talking about local
00:05:18actors. Today, ISIS...
00:05:21But a little while ago you were saying and agreeing with Professor Ali that even external
00:05:24actors might also have a direct link
00:05:28to it. But today, today, even Jordan, as a stable
00:05:31country with its security
00:05:34and military forces at the highest levels of readiness
00:05:37and preparedness, suffered attacks in governorates very
00:05:41far from the Syrian border.
00:05:44But I mean that ISIS is not a single entity. There are more
00:05:48than one party today. Today, even after the fall of the regime, there is no longer
00:05:51a known leadership for ISIS. The central
00:05:55leadership ended in ISIS. Today, the organization has formed
00:05:58itself into scattered sub-networks, decentralized,
00:06:02that may not communicate among themselves. For example,
00:06:05I'll give you an example: it was announced recently that the wali
00:06:08of Homs was arrested. Where was he arrested? He was arrested in the Damascus countryside.
00:06:13He was targeting, he was behind the bombing of the Imam
00:06:16Ali Mosque in the city of Homs. He was arrested
00:06:19in the Homs countryside. Also, other cells. So, coordination operations
00:06:24organization are at their lowest levels. The coordination process is
00:06:28that it uses different electronic methods and programs. But
00:06:32today, the leadership of the organization, the leadership of the tools it
00:06:35uses, we know something about it. Of course, the security
00:06:38agencies are aware of it and are monitoring and following up on it. The most prominent
00:06:42of them, to be clear, are encrypted programs and others. But
00:06:46today, the organization's leadership is no longer present in Syria.
00:06:50Today, the organization's funding comes from distant regions in Africa.
00:06:53There, the main activity of ISIS
00:06:56- even reports talk about the organization sending money from
00:07:00Africa to some of its cells in Syria. Today, ISIS is suffering
00:07:04from a lack of funding, suffering from a lack of
00:07:07recruitment. What the Syrian state has done on the economic
00:07:11and social levels, and on the level of eliminating grievances
00:07:14and discrimination that was imposed in some areas, such as the SDF,
00:07:18for example, has made the organization lose
00:07:22the base it used to draw on
00:07:25to recruit elements and to ideologically charge
00:07:28elements. Today, all ISIS propaganda is no longer effective, really.
00:07:31Therefore, we are also waging a professional struggle. It is no longer effective. ISIS propaganda has
00:07:34not been able to gain additional elements,
00:07:39recruitment, it suffers from, I mean, today, many
00:07:43failed operations and preemptive operations. In the
00:07:46past month, at least, there were more than 10 preemptive operations by
00:07:50the Syrian state to arrest
00:07:52scattered cells and seize weapons,
00:07:56and among them were also
00:07:59explosive devices, which we saw with
00:08:02our own eyes
00:08:05the media. But does this mean that the organization is finished? No,
00:08:09not certainly. Does it mean that the organization will go away soon?
00:08:13Certainly not. The danger is still present, but the watchful
00:08:16eye and the growing security capabilities and innovations
00:08:19that are being introduced, for example,
00:08:22it was possible to predict, for example, in the intelligence
00:08:25operation that protected the Homs
00:08:28refinery, it was possible to predict that the organization
00:08:32would target the Homs refinery because it was waging an economic war
00:08:35and targeted power stations such as the Tishreen
00:08:40the Gasba line. Therefore, the Homs refinery was a potential target,
00:08:44and therefore, supervision over it was intensified, and this plan was thwarted. Therefore, there
00:08:48are those who think, there are those who sit, there are those who monitor, there are those who
00:08:51anticipate. Monitoring security threats related
00:08:54to ISIS does not necessarily have to be related to technological
00:08:57capabilities or security capabilities. There must be
00:09:00people who are aware of the way this
00:09:04organization thinks and who
00:09:07act preemptively to face threats. Only the security forces
00:09:10have this expertise. Which are present in Syria today, the Ministry
00:09:14of Interior represented by the anti-terrorism unit, and also
00:09:19many operations. But does this mean that this organization will end soon? Certainly
00:09:23not. This danger is still present. Terrorism strikes anywhere, even
00:09:27stable countries like
00:09:30the last period, there were five operations by ISIS in
00:09:34Kirkuk, some of which were also dangerous. It will remain present,
00:09:38it will remain present, but what will determine its danger and the extent
00:09:40of its threat is the work of the security agencies,
00:09:44their capabilities, their
00:09:47follow-up of indicators and their tracking of these
00:09:51risks, and all of them specifically. Now there is a fundamental question. Now Syria is part of
00:09:55the international coalition to fight ISIS, but what
00:10:00context is whether Syria's joining the international coalition
00:10:03benefited the Syrian state in developing tools or providing
00:10:08organization. Did this happen, Professor Ali, in your opinion?
00:10:12Of course, yes. Syria's entry
00:10:16into the international coalition to fight the organization allowed, as
00:10:19we noticed, that the United States of America, for example,
00:10:24training. There was also a
00:10:27budget approved, I believe, to support the Syrian state's efforts in
00:10:31fighting the ISIS organization, and this,
00:10:34I won't hide it from you, is beneficial in fighting the organization and also
00:10:38beneficial in the process of moral support for the Syrian state in
00:10:41confronting this organization, because we noticed that there is a defect at the regional
00:10:45level, perhaps we do not want
00:10:49Karak, Jordan. May God have mercy on the victims there, and may God
00:10:51have mercy on our martyrs also who fell
00:10:55in the bombing in the Tafilah area and southern Syria.
00:10:58Therefore, this is a big question that there is a defect,
00:11:02there is a defect, no doubt,
00:11:06the international coalition. Perhaps this is the point
00:11:09of weakness or the big question mark
00:11:13for two countries that are in the same
00:11:16issue? But of course,
00:11:20coalition, as I mentioned earlier, if we look at
00:11:23the number of operations
00:11:27of the organization since Syria joined the coalition,
00:11:30we notice that they have significantly decreased in 2026.
00:11:34But with the change in tactics and the change in the type
00:11:37of targets, and I perhaps want to go back
00:11:40a little to what my colleagues here mentioned,
00:11:43that in reality, if you want to read
00:11:47the nature of the event, the nature of the targeting carried out by ISIS today and the organization
00:11:51towards oil refineries and gas pipelines and...
00:11:56This explains, in one way or another, the efforts of the Syrian
00:12:00state to rebuild its economy and where it is going
00:12:03and which regional parties are benefiting or being harmed.
00:12:07Therefore, at some point you have to say, if you want to understand what
00:12:11is happening in Syria or what is happening in Syria, you have to
00:12:14know what is happening in the Strait of Hormuz, for example.
00:12:18Therefore, Iran is not
00:12:21in its interest, and Iran has always prevented, in 1988,
00:12:25the passage of energy pipelines. The Kirkuk-Baniyas pipeline is essentially
00:12:29an old project, not a new project. Iran pressured
00:12:32and put money
00:12:34and
00:12:37provided the defunct Syrian regime with credit
00:12:40lines in compensation for
00:12:42the issue of extending the oil pipeline from Kirkuk
00:12:46to Baniyas because it does not want this country to remain
00:12:50dependent. Today, Syria
00:12:52has freed itself from this dependence and has become
00:12:56an independent state that sets its plans,
00:12:59sets its strategy for building the economy. So, the most important point
00:13:03that can be targeted today in reality to affect the core of the Syrian
00:13:06state at the popular level, and at the economic level, and at
00:13:10the strategic level, is to strike
00:13:13energy facilities. First, it
00:13:17costs the Syrian state treasury. For example, I will mention
00:13:20the Homs refinery. Today, every
00:13:24day, God forbid, if the
00:13:28targeting succeeded, every day
00:13:31a disruption in the Homs refinery would cost the state
00:13:34approximately 5.5 million dollars every day. This is only
00:13:38from the Homs refinery, from
00:13:41not also include the issue of the state's loss of foreign
00:13:45currency and the process of collecting foreign currency to buy fuel.
00:13:49This does not also include the disruption that
00:13:52electricity. The disruption that will occur in economic
00:13:56facilities. For example, targeting
00:13:59the gas pipeline connecting to the Tishreen station, the loss was
00:14:03nearly two million dollars daily. This is a direct loss. We are
00:14:06not talking about collateral losses. Yes, this is draining
00:14:09the state's economy. It
00:14:12weakens the confidence of regional parties
00:14:15in the possibility of actually proceeding with projects like
00:14:18the Kirkuk-Baniyas project. Therefore, we note in the recent
00:14:22negotiations or discussions that
00:14:25the media that the security issue was at the heart of the discussions
00:14:29between His Excellency President Ahmad al-Shara and Iraqi Prime
00:14:31Minister Mr. al-Zaidi, regarding how
00:14:35we will protect these lines. This was at the core of these
00:14:38discussions. This can give us an insight into why
00:14:42the state organization is targeting such
00:14:46facilities. Therefore, there is a social impact, as we
00:14:50mentioned.
00:14:52What are people complaining about now? People are complaining about
00:15:03actually securing a cycle of increased production,
00:15:05extraction,
00:15:08and refining within Syria, a complete
00:15:11production cycle. You reduce costs within Syria, and this
00:15:15is reflected economically, reflected in factory production,
00:15:19reflected in bringing people as a workforce into economic
00:15:22facilities, and reflected in the costs of the product itself, because when
00:15:26you import energy, there is a value, there is an additional bill being paid on
00:15:30the bill, on the
00:15:42now of the international coalition
00:15:45that Syria joined to fight ISIS.
00:15:49Is it really doing what it should
00:15:53to support the tools or the Syrian state in
00:15:56organization, or is there also a shortcoming or
00:16:01regard?
00:16:03First, allow me to point out that the security
00:16:07operation is a complex and intertwined process, and one cannot look
00:16:10at security in general in Syria or security in
00:16:14any other country as being confined
00:16:17to security personnel and the security apparatus concerned
00:16:20with tracking terrorist and subversive
00:16:23networks. Security is a complete system from the economic,
00:16:26social, political,
00:16:29and even military
00:16:32aspects. Therefore, today, when we
00:16:36follow the activity and operations of ISIS, we notice that
00:16:39ISIS has a good ability to
00:16:43read the political reality of the Syrian geography or
00:16:47the Syrian state. Therefore, it carries out its operations
00:16:50in a way that disrupts or strikes
00:16:53has been attested to by
00:16:56both near and far
00:16:59for its goodness and balance. For example,
00:17:02as Sameer Diaa mentioned,
00:17:06it carried out a terrorist operation that targeted the shrine of Lady
00:17:09Zaynab in the early days of liberation. It also
00:17:13targeted one of the Syrian state's facilities
00:17:16or infrastructure during the French President's visit to Syria. And today,
00:17:20ISIS is targeting energy
00:17:24transmission lines and also vital
00:17:28the Syrian state. It also previously tried to blow up a
00:17:32railway line in the city of
00:17:34Homs. Therefore,
00:17:38the Syrian state should not look
00:17:42threat as merely a security threat. Rather, there are
00:17:46a set of measures that ISIS exploits
00:17:49due to the lack of
00:17:53full support for the Syrian
00:17:56state, and here I mean financial support,
00:18:00the economic and livelihood
00:18:03hardships that the Syrian citizen is going through and also
00:18:08ISIS from recruiting elements who were previously,
00:18:11whether loyal to it or its supporters. As
00:18:15for the support provided
00:18:17by the international coalition, as far as I believe,
00:18:21according to my follow-up, it is so far limited to
00:18:24information exchange and coordination, and
00:18:28the larger implementation may be the responsibility
00:18:32of the security forces and
00:18:51Rashid.
00:18:54The Syrian state joined or formed with its neighbors Turkey,
00:18:58Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq a special operations room for these
00:19:01countries for which ISIS poses a threat since
00:19:052025. And if this room was formed
00:19:09and made Damascus its headquarters, and this
00:19:12indicates, and if it indicates anything, it indicates that the Syrian
00:19:16state views the international coalition
00:19:19as a key partner in combating terrorism, and also views
00:19:23its regional neighbors as partners in
00:19:26cooperating with them
00:19:33Diaa. What does ISIS and others who
00:19:36want to target the Syrian state exploit? And what about
00:19:40the future? Is time sufficient for us to develop
00:19:43counter-measures in a way that greatly
00:19:46limits targeting operations? Look, ISIS,
00:19:49in short, exploits security, economic,
00:19:52and social gaps and tries to stir up sectarian
00:19:55strife. In many situations, the Syrian state has been able
00:19:58to confront very dangerous conspiracies. The Syrian state, despite
00:20:02its modest capabilities, Syrians today should be proud of the intelligence
00:20:05capabilities, the capabilities of combating the organization,
00:20:08which perhaps far exceed, as a result of the field experiences it has
00:20:12gone through, the capabilities of regional intelligence agencies, and perhaps
00:20:17the regional ones. Today, ISIS still poses
00:20:21a threat. Community awareness, also
00:20:24media and intellectual awareness, and also lifting
00:20:27popular and economic grievances, supporting
00:20:30popular vulnerable
00:20:32sectors also that the organization
00:20:36might target and exploit, these are very important
00:20:39things in combating the organization. Combating the organization is not only through purely
00:20:43security measures or with an iron
00:20:45fist. Also, intellectual confrontation
00:20:48and thwarting the organization, and defeating it
00:20:52intellectually and socially is considered an important part of combating this. Okay, what
00:20:55do you think, Professor Ali? Now,
00:20:58the issue of exploitation, whether by ISIS or other
00:21:01entities targeting the state, exploiting
00:21:05vulnerabilities, how should
00:21:08And is time now sufficient
00:21:11for us to develop the necessary tools
00:21:15to significantly reduce these attacks?
00:21:18As long as an organization develops its strategies,
00:21:21it is necessarily essential for the state and security
00:21:25agencies, I think this is a specialized
00:21:27matter, but
00:21:29it is necessary to develop strategies to confront this organization.
00:21:33But the organization cannot be confronted individually, in fact.
00:21:36Because the organization, I believe,
00:21:44world, on crises of hatred,
00:21:46Islamophobia. It is still able, for
00:21:50example, to attract many disgruntled elements, for example,
00:21:53today, in a deteriorating economic situation
00:21:56or the economic conditions experienced by
00:22:00many countries, including European countries. Therefore,
00:22:04there is a rule - I apologize, we take the meaning from it -
00:22:07that if the earth suffers, the heavens prosper.
00:22:10Therefore, extremist organizations benefit from these
00:22:14environments. Yes.
00:22:17applies internally, because the more efforts are made
00:22:21to weaken the Syrian state by parties, by entities, by
00:22:24this means an attempt to destabilize local environments
00:22:28for recruitment and
00:22:31to influence the state's situation and
00:24:35we welcome His Excellency the President and the accompanying delegation, and this
00:24:39is a confirmation of the strength and solidity of the relationship between
00:24:43Iraq and Syria, and God willing, this will be a good
00:24:46start for future and strategic projects, God willing.
00:24:55imposed between the two countries very strong historical relations. There are also economic
00:24:58ties.
00:25:07We are very happy, by God, with this
00:25:10warm reception, and we see your hearts
00:25:14met us before your eyes. Geography says
00:25:18the neighbor is the closest.
00:25:20But wisdom says the closest is blood, and God willing, the blood
00:25:24of Iraq and the blood of Syria is one blood, and perhaps our blood
00:25:27is both, and more, because we are ancient.
00:25:31We and you, God willing, are one people
00:25:34living in two countries. We want to revive our history,
00:25:38we want to restore economic cooperation, political
00:25:41cooperation, unite
00:25:44at the Arab or Islamic world
00:25:47level. Your security is our security, God willing,
00:25:50and vice versa. And God willing, soon we await
00:25:54your arrival to honor us in your second country,
00:25:58and you will be the hosts and we will be the guests. God
00:26:01bless you.
00:26:08It is very important that we invest your presence today
00:26:11in your second country, Damascus, so that
00:26:14we can begin to pave the way. God willing, it will be long and sustainable.
00:26:32Syria left the trenches of conflicts to take its
00:26:35place and its standing at the table of security
00:26:38making.
00:26:41The Syrian Arab Republic joined the international coalition
00:26:44against ISIS
00:26:45and took
00:26:52a historic step by integrating
00:26:55the northeast into the institutions
00:26:57of the national state, and parliamentary life
00:27:01returned, and we began to hold accountable those involved
00:27:05in violations during the era of the defunct regime.
00:27:09And today we are cooperating with full transparency with
00:27:12the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
00:27:15and the International Atomic Energy Agency to close
00:27:19those files technically
00:27:20and institutionally.
00:27:24Nations tested by fire emerge stronger
00:27:27and more immune. And Syrians have chosen to
00:27:31be builders of a secure and stable tomorrow. And in
00:27:34our new Syrian policy, we believe that true
00:27:37security is embodied in states capable of protecting their peoples.
00:29:00Reduction, teams from the
00:29:03Hasakah Disaster Management
00:29:07drill and firefighting
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00:30:43Minister
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