What happens in Syria doesn't always stay in Syria

The world already has too many bases from which global terror can expand

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Portraits of toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his later father Hafez al-Assad. (Photo: LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Of course, out of the ashes of Hayat al-Sham’s stunning uprising from its Idlib stronghold there is a great deal of talk about them bringing together all of Syria’s factions.

But this is against a backdrop of near-constant Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s military war machine - 350 in just 48 hours and counting - and HTS battles against Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces.

Then there is the regional manhunt - promised by HTS leader Abu Mohamed al-Jolani - for toppled ex-President Bashar al-Assad’s torturers and murderers with blood on their hands.

On top of that, there are reports of rebel fighters executing cornered Syrian soldiers in the street, a sadly predictable and brutal result of the aftermath of the uprising.

Many of the bodies dragged out of Sednaya Prison - which has been dubbed the “Slaugherhouse” - showed signs of torture and having been killed recently, as if to destroy witnesses to the Assad reign’s horror.