Another miracle needed in Syria, please

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Another miracle needed in Syria, please
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LONDON, U.K.—They’re still celebrating the miraculous fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, and the killing has stopped in Syria except for parts of the north, east and south. So what are the odds that the man whose fighters brought down the regime—Ahmed al-Sharaa—can bring peace, prosperity, and even democracy to Syria? Sharaa—until recently known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani—is an Islamist who started out in al-Qaeda.

The Russians—Assad’s biggest backers—may leave, but the Turks are carving out Syrian territory along the border for a buffer zone. So what is Syria’s biggest problem? None of the above. It is the fear that HTS will try to turn Syria into a radical religious dictatorship like Afghanistan. That would terrify not only the Americans, the Russians, and the various Shia countries and minorities of the Middle East, but also all the non-extremist Sunni states in the region.

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