Bashar al-Assad is gone, and the Biden administration has promised to “recognize and fully support” a new Syrian government.
Cause for celebration, right?
Not quite.
Entire towns like Maaloula — where Aramaic, the language of Christ, was still spoken — have been overrun and devastated.
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Obama’s dream scenario
The fall of Assad might feel like a win for democracy to some in the West. But for Syria’s Christians, it signals something far more sinister. Specifically, survival under the shadow of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a jihadist faction infamous for its cruelty.
Assad’s regime, for all its authoritarian brutality, at least offered a semblance of stability for minorities like Christians, who had lived in Syria for nearly two millennia, tracing their roots back
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