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