“Your prisons have been dissolved,” Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa proclaimed during his speech at the launch ceremony of the country’s new, post-Assad visual identity on July 3. But even as he hailed the “victory of the revolution” and the emptying of the former regime’s prisons, prisoners of conscience continued to languish in northwestern Syria—held in the prisons of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the faction al-Sharaa led in Idlib. 

It is utterly implausible to assume that Washington—with its vast military presence in Qatar and its intimate cooperation with “Israel”—was entirely unaware of an operation of this magnitude. For decades, the U.S. and “Israel” have maintained a deeply entrenched military and political partnership. Under the Memorandum of Understanding that runs until 2028, “Israel” receives $3.8 billion annually in U.S. military aid.

According to the laws that govern the current system, every nation has the right to choose the laws that governs them – and thus, every nation has a right to a state. This concept led to the wave of new countries after World War 2, as existing ones split and thus, we have the mess that we see today.

In East Turkestan, mothers are arrested, children are separated from their families, and underage girls are sterilized... In East Turkestan, a group of people are being slaughtered and exterminated in silence (East Turkestan News Agency, 12/9/2025)