Lawfare Daily: The New Syrian Government and Its Problems

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Steven Heydemann, the Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Smith College, to assess the fast-changing developments in Syria today. Heydemann discusses the surge in communal violence in Syria, the deal between the new Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led government and Syria's Kurds, Israel's counterproductive interventions, and U.S. policy toward the new regime in Damascus.

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1:06.3	Episodes like this could happen again.
1:08.9	We could see a similar kind of really fragmented,
1:14.6	almost uncontrolled reaction if we see additional provocations from Syrians who remain loyal
1:22.8	to the Assad regime.
1:24.6	It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Daniel Biman, the foreign policy editor of Lawfare,
1:31.3	and I'm here today with Steve Heideman. He is a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at
1:37.8	Smith College and a longtime observer of the Middle East.
1:43.1	Almost immediately on the heels of the collapse of the
1:47.0	Assad regime, Israel intervened militarily in Syria and now occupies a significant territory in
1:53.0	southern Syria and seems to be setting itself up as permanent or semi-permanent presence in
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