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Looking at the last few years of Assad's regime, what is truly surprising is that he has lasted until 2024 at all: his biggest allies, Hezbollah, Iran and Russia, are busy with their own conflicts and wars, and there is not much left of the Syrian army. However, the fall of the dictator also raises a lot of new questions, starting with whether the former Syrian leader of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda can be believed when he says that he has indeed changed. And the world has something to fear: Europe may have reason to fear a new refugee crisis if the fragile Syria continues to crack. What will happen to the Christians? And the Kurds? The Alawites? What is Israel doing in the Golan Heights? Could the reign of terror of the Islamic State return? Mihály Béla Kacskovics asked Imre Keresztes, a journalist covering the Middle East for the HVG World column, about these issues. Fill out the HVG Podcasts listener questionnaire! https://forms.gle/WJpLqt69HsxAzsXt6 Subscribe to the Fülke channel! Spotify: tiny.cc/FulkeSpotify Apple Podcasts: tiny.cc/FulkeApple Listen to HVG's other podcasts: Spotify: tiny.cc/HVGpodcastokSpotify Apple Podcasts: tiny.cc/HVGpodcastokApple SoundCloud: tiny.cc/HVGpodcastokSC Content: 00:00 Intro 01:17 Assad's collapse - why this way, why now? 07:33 Strategic interests 1.: Turkey 08:38 The former emir of the Islamic State - why is al-Dzolani still alive? 12:16 What do the political forces in Syria currently look like, what can be expected in the future? 15:11 Minority issue 1.: The Kurdish minority 16:42 Minority issue 2.: The Christian minority 18:21 Can there be a migration wave like the one in 2015? 19:00 Strategic interests 2.: Israel 21:52 Strategic interests 3.: United States 24:43 Strategic interests 4.: Russia 28:39 Strategic interests 5.: Iran