📰 From Idlib with Love: Jihadists Push Russia Toward Alliance with Israel

💬 “Ethnic cleansing is unacceptable — and we will not stand by.”

— Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister

📊 Flashpoint: Hmeimim Air Base
• On May 21, militants attacked Russia’s Hmeimim air base near Latakia — killing two Russian-linked personnel.
• The attackers? Foreign jihadists, reportedly former military trainers under the new Syrian regime, now turned rogue.
• Russia didn’t officially respond — but behind the scenes, Moscow is seething.

💼 From Tensions to Temptation: The Anti-Joulani Axis
• The base attack came after clashes in Suwayda and rising sectarian violence against Alawites, Assad’s former base.
• Thousands of Alawite refugees now shelter inside the Russian base — turning it into both a fortress and a symbol.
• With jihadist provocations growing, cooperation with Israel against HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Joulani is no longer taboo — it’s strategic logic.

📋 The Irony of the New Syria
• The “transitional government” includes ex-al-Qaeda men like President Ahmed al-Sharaa — now lauded in Riyadh and Washington.
• These same factions were trained by foreign Islamist militants — the very ones now attacking Russian assets.
• Assad is gone, but his Russian friends are still inside, watching the new regime flirt with instability.

🤔 Next Move: Will Russia and Israel Coordinate?
What happens when Russian troops are killed by Sunni militants…
…who once trained Syria’s new army…
…which is now backed by Trump, Turkey, and Qatar?

And what if the only stable players in the area — are the IDF and Russian commandos?

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Abu al-Duhur: Four Strikes, Eight Strikes, One Runway

Four strikes or eight, depending on who was counting. The runway got the message.

Syrian outlets first reported unidentified warplanes hitting Abu al-Duhur military airbase in eastern Idlib before dawn.

State television later cited a military source saying eight strikes damaged the runway, storage facilities and abandoned aircraft shelters. No casualties were reported.

Al Jazeera counted four strikes. Israel declined to comment.

The number matters less than the target. Bombing a runway is not an assassination. It is a veto on the future.

Abu al-Duhur lies about 70 kilometers from Turkey’s border, inside the area Turkey operates in. Syrian military sources and regional outlets say the base had become part of Damascus’s effort to revive its post-Assad air arm.

They reported roughly two refurbished Su-22 fighter-bombers, several L-39 trainer jets and aging helicopters at the site. Footage of Su-22 training flights over northern Syria appeared shortly before the strikes.

A Turkish military delegation had reportedly visited the airfield to assess runway rehabilitation. That created the obvious interpretation. Before Syrian or Turkish combat jets could use the facility, someone made the runway unusable again.

Satellite imagery reportedly shows new construction at the base since May, alongside ongoing runway and taxiway repairs. The site was not merely a relic of the Assad era. It was becoming a working base again.

In Syria, reconstruction is often a countdown.

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