US HAS NOT YET DECIDED ON RELATIONS WITH NEW SYRIAN REGIME


The United States is closely monitoring developments in Syria, where the HTS rebels have taken power, but has not yet outlined the type of relations it might adopt with the fundamentalist coalition led by former Al Qaeda member Mohamed Al Juliani, a figure who is partly overlooked by the intelligence services in Washington.


White House security adviser Jake Sullivan has held several meetings with the heads of the Israeli intelligence services, the Mossad, who are considered to be the best informed of the situation in Damascus, and in particular the possible plans of the HTS to form a larger coalition.


Washington's main concern is that ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) will participate in the coalition that took power in Damascus, and in the long run, that terrorist movement could be the dominant factor in rebuilding a Caliphate in Syria, which would have a very unfavorable effect on the region.


For Secretary of State Antony Blinken, if ISIS resurfaces in Syria, the situation for the White House would become much more complicated: "We have been acting for years to prevent another caliphate from re-emerging and that is a priority," Blinken told the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hakan Fidan, with whom he met in Ankara last Thursday.


Taking advantage of the fact that today, Friday, is the day of the week when the faithful flock to midday prayer, all the mosques in Damascus, especially the Umayyad, the most important, were packed with people, thus communicating their joy at the fall of the Assad clan. Women and children also took part in the ceremony, which is unusual.


Turkey, through Hakan Fidan, has given assurances that it will oppose ISIS and the PKK (Kurdish workers' party) entering the coalition and even trying to take power and displace HTS. Both formations have many more followers and weapons than the Syrian rebels, who would then be in a minority.


Another problem for Ankara is that the main oil fields are in the north and east of Syria, in areas controlled by the Kurdish minority that shared the resources generated by the extraction of crude oil with Damascus. Although 90 percent of the population lives in poverty levels recognized by the United Nations.




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