{"id":25386,"date":"2024-12-11T03:35:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T08:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/?p=25386"},"modified":"2024-12-11T03:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T08:35:53","slug":"syrian-rebels-had-help-from-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/syrian-rebels-had-help-from-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian rebels had help from Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25384\" src=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PZ2F4VIDABGWZJCKTFWO37X7LA-250x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PZ2F4VIDABGWZJCKTFWO37X7LA-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PZ2F4VIDABGWZJCKTFWO37X7LA-500x332.jpg 500w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PZ2F4VIDABGWZJCKTFWO37X7LA-106x70.jpg 106w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PZ2F4VIDABGWZJCKTFWO37X7LA-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PZ2F4VIDABGWZJCKTFWO37X7LA.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>David Ignatius reports in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2024\/12\/10\/ukraine-syria-russia-war\/\">Washington Post op-ed<\/a> that \u201caccording to sources familiar with Ukrainian military activities abroad, Kyiv provided support to the Islamist militia, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), in it successful effort to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Specifically, it dispatched \u201cabout 20 experienced drone operators and about 150 first-person-view drones to the rebel headquarters in Idlib.\u201d Although modest, Ukrainian support to the rebellion has been ongoing: <em>Kyiv Post,<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/post\/33695\">Ukrainian Special Forces and Syrian Rebels Decimate Russian Mercenaries in Syria.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25385\" src=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/an-fpv-drone-with-an-attached-portable-grenade-launcher-is-seen-during-a-test-flight-conducted-by-ukrainian-servicemen-of-the-b-500x281.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/an-fpv-drone-with-an-attached-portable-grenade-launcher-is-seen-during-a-test-flight-conducted-by-ukrainian-servicemen-of-the-b-500x281.webp 500w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/an-fpv-drone-with-an-attached-portable-grenade-launcher-is-seen-during-a-test-flight-conducted-by-ukrainian-servicemen-of-the-b-250x141.webp 250w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/an-fpv-drone-with-an-attached-portable-grenade-launcher-is-seen-during-a-test-flight-conducted-by-ukrainian-servicemen-of-the-b-106x60.webp 106w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/an-fpv-drone-with-an-attached-portable-grenade-launcher-is-seen-during-a-test-flight-conducted-by-ukrainian-servicemen-of-the-b-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/an-fpv-drone-with-an-attached-portable-grenade-launcher-is-seen-during-a-test-flight-conducted-by-ukrainian-servicemen-of-the-b.webp 1245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ignatius reports in a Washington Post op-ed that \u201caccording to sources familiar with Ukrainian military activities abroad, Kyiv provided support to the Islamist militia, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), in it successful effort to topple Syrian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10167552604075290_133638503385018":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweet"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Syrian rebels had help from Ukraine &#8211; 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