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Support us financially ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaiv Discuss in the Jung & Naiv Forum ► http://forum.jungundnaiv.de/ Guest in the studio: journalist Kristin Helberg. She studied political science and journalism in Hamburg and Barcelona. From 1995 to 2001 she worked for NDR. From 2001 to 2008 she lived in Damascus in Syria, where she was the only officially accredited western correspondent for a long time. She works as a freelance journalist for ARD, ORF, Swiss Radio DRS and Swiss television. A conversation about the sudden fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the reasons for it, the situation after the ceasefire in 2020 and the division of the country into four parts, as well as the four dominant forces of Assad's troops, Erdogan's mercenaries (SNA), Kurdish forces (SDF/YPG) and the radical Islamists of HTS, the history of the Assad dictatorship since 1970, Kristin's career, her reporting at the time and working conditions on the ground in Syria, the reasons for the outbreak of war in Syria in 2011, the chronology of the war and the interventions of the Turks, Iranians, Americans and Russians, the use of chemical weapons, the development of Al-Qaeda into HTS under leader Abu Muhammad al-Jaulani (aka Ahmad Husain al-Shar'a), the weakness of Assad's allies (Hezbollah, Iran, Russia) as the reason for his fall, an outlook on the future development of Syria as well as best and Worst-case scenarios, Russia's geopolitical interest in Syria, the occupation of parts of Syria by Turkey, Israel and the USA, as well as the role of Syria's oil reserves and much more. + your questions via Hans Tip: Episode 211 with Kristin (November 2014) about the war in Syria • Syria & ISIS - Young & Naive: Episode 211 Please support our work financially: Account: Young & Naive IBAN: DE854 3060 967 104 779 2900 GLS Gemeinschaftsbank PayPal ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaiv #Syria #Assad #HTS