@@nickfinan6031Daesh is an acronym for “dawlat islamiyya fi Iraq wa ash-sham”. Or something like that. It’s just the abbreviation of the name by which Baghdadi formed the “caliphate”. I believe that the reason why it’s used as an insult is because the word is a homophone to the word ‘to trample underfoot’.
I really liked the video! But I feel like your voice volume in this video is way lower than in others often I can't hear you in my phone speaker with room noise
not even a minute in but your pronunciation is on point. This is such a breath of fresh air from most other western-facing creators. It shows you actually respect the subject matter at hand. I subscribed off that alone.
What is with the obsession with pronunciation overseas? I don't say anything when ya'll come over and speak broken English. Can Arabs even agree on a dialect?
Just as we shouldn't expect people who arnt native English speakers to pronounce the words perfectly maybe we shouldn't raise the standard that English speakers need to perfectly pronounce things in all other languages?
No, it sounds weird putting on a mock accent for certain words - it’s not pronunciation. Do you reckon he pronounces the “s” in Paris? Think about that, and that’s why it’s weird and inconsistent.
There is quite an error in this video. The SDF has controlled Manbij since all the way back in 2016. The city has been a federal part of Rojava for 8 years peacefully until the SNA brutally conquered it. Jut wanted to point this out cause else it gives the impression the SNA took territory that Syrian forces already controlled before.
@CoolAdam247 I'm assuming you just didn't look up the subject. You can just use wikipedia for this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Manbij_offensive. The SNA excecuted dozens of SDF fighters they capured and turkish drone strikes killed almost a dozen civilians. Thats a brutal attack in my book.
As a Kurd, this video is totally inaccurate about the Kurdish issue it's like you don't even know what a Kurd is. Sounds like you got your info from reddit. Kurds are not a monolith and there are tons of Kurds in the Islamist rebels.
No sources because not true. Netanyahu said that about the Golan Heights, which are occupied and settled since 67, but never about the new buffer zone, which he at least claimed is temporary
What happened to the reports that the Revolutionary Commando Army captured northern Damascus? Unless I missed it it wasn't mentioned at all in this video. Are the RCA and the HTS sharing their control of Damascus, did the RCA pull back from the city or were the reports wrong all along? I've heard many conflicting reports from different sources about who controls Damascus since the regime fell and as someone who only doesn't follow all this too deeply I'm pretty confused by it
Why is SpongeBob so popular in this part of the world? Not just Iran, but Syria, too, apparently? I have not been able to find a satisfactory explanation as to why. 🤔
Just a technical complaint. Dude, the sound is too low and muffled. If I crank my computer's volume just to hear your video, all other sounds and notifications will play too loud.
Hello Hilbert. So both Prof James Ker-Lindsay and you suggest that Turkey is to the fore of international tables this late November and December? Happy Christmas or Yuletide and a Happy New Year to you and anyone reading this comment.
9:20 This part is also wrong. The emblem of Turkmen people is a version of Seljuk Empire, which ruled the area before Ottomans. And they were Oghuz Turks as well.
Greater Israel Project. Smart move of them to fund and arm the rebels and then once they win, call them terrorists to justify invading their land unchecked
Having seen how fast the Taliban swept up leftover US gear in 2021 the remnants of Syrian Arab anti-air missiles, warships and possible chemical weapons production sites could be falling into any of these groups hands and sold to whoever else in a pinch. Israel is right to be worried considering how they're already actively tangling with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and the Houthis simultaneously. Hopefully the rebel groups come together to form a united Syria that has good relations with Israel and Turkey... that's the plan/ideal anyway.
The whole reason this thing happened was so Israel could advance in Syria. Also those groups are friendly to Israel, almost subservient. Israel wouldn’t have been at threat from them.
15:56 well there is a lot isis memberd hiding in desert and mountains and also in prisons and their children and their wiwes in various camps in sdf territory so..........
13:37 What you didn't mention is that the Druze living in the villages under the new Israeli buffer zone requested Israel to annexe them out of fear from the HTS
A loose Islamist government like Turkey's with democratic processes and republican protection of minorities and autonomy could be a bigger target for investment - and a greater partner for their own people and international cooperation - than the authoritarian Arab Socialist Baathists ever were. It's weird to think of so many rebel groups coming together and getting along to produce a unified front for a new Syria but it's not entirely unheard of... I imagine the Syrian people are tired of a decade+ of civil war and the way some of these groups have had tacit agreements before this bodes well for their prospects of cooperation with one another.
The account of the history of HTS 0:42 is like something pulled down from Wikipedia. It is so much more complicated.. moreover, the HTS hadn’t formed back then. The names and flags used are confusion, and they aren’t interchangeable, and the groups you think they merged with , this merger was incomplete and it was *not the cause* or the sufficient condition for the formation of the Julani group in the first place.
For example they split with Liwa al Haqq. “According to the correspondent of "Nedaa Syria" that Tahrir al-Sham set roadblocks linking the towns of Sarmin, Nayrab and Mesibein, where the remnants of the "Sham Army", which affiliated with the "Islamic State" organization, and includes both Liwa' al-Haq and the brigade of David, as HTS set barriers on the road between the city of Idlib and Sarmin, the cities of Ariha and Sarakib, and brought military reinforcements from neighboring areas.” Parts of Jabhat Ansar ad Din Also left HTS. Jaysh al ahrar left HTS due to some issues about Muhaysini. “Jaysh al-Ahrar of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham declared its defection and separation from the Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, due to what they described as the “painful events on the inner level of what’s happening on the ground that we would have never accepted”. Jaysh al-Ahrar is composed of members of Ahrar al-Sham and its leaders who joined Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham about 10 months ago, and they announced in a statement of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has received a copy of, they explained the reasons for the separation and they said that a recent leak in Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham diminishes the Sharia scholars, they also said that a Judicial Committee will be formed to look into the “rights”.”
The main scholars who were around at the start of the formation of HTS are not around, and the guy who is the religious ideologist of HTS today is named Abdul Rahim Atoun.
No at 7:18 Manbij was already under their control by the time of the november-december Opposition offensive’s. They captured Deir Ez Zor Al Abu Kamal and Dayr Hafir. Two of them have since been liberated from their occupation.
Why is there no mention, of the undeniable fact, that Turkey supported and supplied ISIS? ...and what's with the uncertainty, of how long Israel intend to occupy any territory they take? They have never taken any areas, that they have been willing to leave. They always put in settlers.
You are not really saying who controls what, you spend 90% of the video describing the factions of syria ansd their politics. Nobody cares about those here. We came here to see who controls what in syria as said on the title. So should us a map with whayt each sides controls what those lands contain and thats it. Don't tell us the ideology nor the founding principal crap. We already know these as its old news. All we want to know is who contrals what. Simple!
Bro I have zero, none, nada beef with the sound. If I had any though, surely I’d see the hundred comments about it and not feel the need to add my own complaint…
Sadly I don't think the SDF will be able to hold any territory west of the Euphraties but if they can get into the negoitation room fast they might end up leading a government as part of a larger probably fredualised Syria. Less central power more district power. That will mean handing over thier milltary assets over to a central milltary which is, as always dangerous.
When talking about Al Jolani, he was kicked from Al Qaeda I think(I’m not 💯) because he wasn’t Khawarij, learn what that means so you can implement using that word
Okay video. Though the Alawites are also fighting in skirmishes near Russian bases reported by many people. Another L for USA Public accepting Taliban and Al-Qaeda as rulers as states-leaders.
Russia and Iran in Syria: • Shielded the SDF/YPG in Turkish borders. • Bombed civilians, causing constant migration waves to Türkiye. • Blocked Türkiye's efforts to create a safe zone for refugees. • Rejected Türkiye's diplomatic offers. Result: Türkiye pushed them out.
@@Aeterna71 Qamishli, Al-Hasakah, Kobani, Amuda, and Derik are majority Kurdish cities, not Arab. When it comes to Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, it was the Kurdish led forces who saved these cities from ISIS while the opposition and the Syrian government were preoccupied fighting each other. Let’s not forget Afrin, a historically Kurdish majority city, now controlled by the SNA Syrian National Army, where Kurds have faced significant ethnic cleansing
One correction. The Israeli government has never suggested displacing anyone from the buffer zone in the eastern Golan Heights and permanently occupying it. The government HAS recently approved funding for housing growth in the Israeli side of the Golan Heights which were annexed back in the 1980s, but this is not in the buffer zone. Jerusalem has again and again clarified that their incursion beyond the border into the Syrian side of the Golan is temporary until it is determined a stable government is able to take control of the border on the Syrian side. While some Syrian Druze villages have requested to be annexed by the Israelis, Israel has given no indication that they intend this and certainly not planning on displacing peaceful residents.
Im glad spongebob was represented
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
2:32 exactly
Lol XD
Any context why spongebob is there lol?
@@marcwhitlock5002 He's a regional powerhouse who secures his tribe's authority
In interviews with SDF fighters alot of them refer to ISIS as “the so called Islamic state” which I think is a good way of viewing it
I’ve heard “Daesh” used insultingly
@@wildfire9280 likewise, Daesh seems to be a more broadly used term, I don’t know any of the languages so tone is hard to determine
No they called it daesh.
@@nickfinan6031Daesh is an acronym for “dawlat islamiyya fi Iraq wa ash-sham”. Or something like that. It’s just the abbreviation of the name by which Baghdadi formed the “caliphate”. I believe that the reason why it’s used as an insult is because the word is a homophone to the word ‘to trample underfoot’.
@ fascinating! The whole “so called Islamic state” is also just the subtitles of either Kurdish or Arabic (unsure, I speak neither language)
Israel: we need a buffer zone for our buffer zone
Free real estate 👌
But then where will be the buffer zone of the buffer zone of the buffer zone
I really liked the video! But I feel like your voice volume in this video is way lower than in others often I can't hear you in my phone speaker with room noise
Click on the 3 dots on the video and press the button that says “stable audio” this will make your audio the same volume throughout all TH-cam.
Does the audio sound low to anyone else?
Same
Same. Had to double my volume on this video
I feel like most of Hilbert’s videos are too quiet.
Very low
Music is distracting.
not even a minute in but your pronunciation is on point. This is such a breath of fresh air from most other western-facing creators. It shows you actually respect the subject matter at hand. I subscribed off that alone.
What is with the obsession with pronunciation overseas? I don't say anything when ya'll come over and speak broken English. Can Arabs even agree on a dialect?
Just as we shouldn't expect people who arnt native English speakers to pronounce the words perfectly maybe we shouldn't raise the standard that English speakers need to perfectly pronounce things in all other languages?
@@badluck5647Can native English speakers agree on a single dialect?
@milkbags1x American can't agree on a single dialect, so it seems odd to obsesse over pronunciation.
No, it sounds weird putting on a mock accent for certain words - it’s not pronunciation. Do you reckon he pronounces the “s” in Paris? Think about that, and that’s why it’s weird and inconsistent.
There is quite an error in this video. The SDF has controlled Manbij since all the way back in 2016. The city has been a federal part of Rojava for 8 years peacefully until the SNA brutally conquered it. Jut wanted to point this out cause else it gives the impression the SNA took territory that Syrian forces already controlled before.
Thank you
"Brutally conquered it" The SDF literally ran away without firing a shot 😂
@CoolAdam247 I'm assuming you just didn't look up the subject. You can just use wikipedia for this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Manbij_offensive. The SNA excecuted dozens of SDF fighters they capured and turkish drone strikes killed almost a dozen civilians. Thats a brutal attack in my book.
@CoolAdam247 Turkish propaganda
@CoolAdam247 48 SNA d0gs
As a Kurd, this video is totally inaccurate about the Kurdish issue it's like you don't even know what a Kurd is. Sounds like you got your info from reddit. Kurds are not a monolith and there are tons of Kurds in the Islamist rebels.
Yeah
Of course, most Kurds are Sunnis.
you should increase the audio in your videos
You could have mentioned Turkey providing passports and passage to ISIS throughout the civil war
My hatred of the governments of Turkey and Azerbaijan know no bounds (love the people ofc)
Turkey is the only country besides Iraq that fought against ISIS on land in 2016 (Operation Euphrates Shield) so stop spreading lies.
@@bnbcraft6666please dont love us we dont want you
Turkey is the only country besides Iraq that fought against ISIS on land in 2016 (Operation Euphrates Shield) so stop spreading lies.
yep just slide the word "passports" in there no ones gonna notice
Normalize the volume of the audio, Hilbert. It's like MASSIVELY lower than literally every single other video on my sub list right now.
Do you think you could do this video in Dutch? Or would that be too much work? I'm a civics teacher and I would love to show this to my MBO students
What is Frisian with Hilbert?
Only the best channel on TH-cam
Guy obsessed about frisian for some reason
@@salamov963he's Frisian if I understand it well.
Please increase the volume of your voice. Uts hard to hear even at max volume
1:39 Ah, yes. The notorious Sinterklaas offensive.
13:38 what is your source for this? You don’t include sources in the description. This is a big accusation
No sources because not true.
Netanyahu said that about the Golan Heights, which are occupied and settled since 67, but never about the new buffer zone, which he at least claimed is temporary
What happened to the reports that the Revolutionary Commando Army captured northern Damascus? Unless I missed it it wasn't mentioned at all in this video. Are the RCA and the HTS sharing their control of Damascus, did the RCA pull back from the city or were the reports wrong all along?
I've heard many conflicting reports from different sources about who controls Damascus since the regime fell and as someone who only doesn't follow all this too deeply I'm pretty confused by it
The audio is very, very quiet, to the extend I have to push up my volume three times to hear it.
Great video! Didn't the Revolutionary Commando Army also push out of the southeast for places like Palmyra and Damascus?
Nope
Yes
Kurdish community there seems more civilized and humane then other groups.
They're worse
they are communist makes me thing other way around
@@esoes7724more than worse.
audio is way too quiet
Thank you for explaining this to me! I really wanted to see this all on a map!
Kurds are sound in my book.
Why is SpongeBob so popular in this part of the world? Not just Iran, but Syria, too, apparently? I have not been able to find a satisfactory explanation as to why. 🤔
simply designed symbol of happiness
Just a technical complaint. Dude, the sound is too low and muffled. If I crank my computer's volume just to hear your video, all other sounds and notifications will play too loud.
2:33 SpongeBob jump scare
My only hope is that Syrian people are able stable lives after decades of Civil War.
My best wishes for the moderates,the artists and the free thinkers. Not to mention the women,minorities and basically anyone who loves freedom
the majority of minorities where with assad and only the majority the sunni who had to endure the brutality of the assad
@@magical_blueidc about the Sunnis only care about Christians and Shias
audio is low
I've noticed no video about the syrian civil war talk about the syrian free army and us occupation
Hai ragione, perché l’Esercito Libero ha commesso molti crimini orribili contro il popolo siriano
Hello Hilbert. So both Prof James Ker-Lindsay and you suggest that Turkey is to the fore of international tables this late November and December?
Happy Christmas or Yuletide and a Happy New Year to you and anyone reading this comment.
Hey what music did you use for this video?
9:20 This part is also wrong. The emblem of Turkmen people is a version of Seljuk Empire, which ruled the area before Ottomans. And they were Oghuz Turks as well.
I can see why Israel acted so fast and immediately attacked Syria at the start of the rebellion now.
Greater Israel Project. Smart move of them to fund and arm the rebels and then once they win, call them terrorists to justify invading their land unchecked
Having seen how fast the Taliban swept up leftover US gear in 2021 the remnants of Syrian Arab anti-air missiles, warships and possible chemical weapons production sites could be falling into any of these groups hands and sold to whoever else in a pinch. Israel is right to be worried considering how they're already actively tangling with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and the Houthis simultaneously. Hopefully the rebel groups come together to form a united Syria that has good relations with Israel and Turkey... that's the plan/ideal anyway.
The whole reason this thing happened was so Israel could advance in Syria.
Also those groups are friendly to Israel, almost subservient.
Israel wouldn’t have been at threat from them.
@Rabbi-Jill-kews *Cough cough* you sure about that mate?
@ yes I am, do you have anything to refute me with queer onto just going to keep asking stupid questions.
bro your sound is so low
15:56 well there is a lot isis memberd hiding in desert and mountains and also in prisons and their children and their wiwes in various camps in sdf territory so..........
US when we finally fund the Navy
Question: How build boat?
13:37 What you didn't mention is that the Druze living in the villages under the new Israeli buffer zone requested Israel to annexe them out of fear from the HTS
not all at all
English?@@texenna
@@PumaEnjoyer not all tribes
Just a flat out lie by a zionist
I heard the opposite. For example in Hadar:
th-cam.com/users/shortsZ_DPgwB-mBc?si=erhr5NHuW2o7DhDn
10:36 Command & Conquer Generals
GLA Faction logo WTF
I wonder how this will end up for Syria in the next decade
Prob bad
A loose Islamist government like Turkey's with democratic processes and republican protection of minorities and autonomy could be a bigger target for investment - and a greater partner for their own people and international cooperation - than the authoritarian Arab Socialist Baathists ever were. It's weird to think of so many rebel groups coming together and getting along to produce a unified front for a new Syria but it's not entirely unheard of... I imagine the Syrian people are tired of a decade+ of civil war and the way some of these groups have had tacit agreements before this bodes well for their prospects of cooperation with one another.
the SDF were the most progressive and open minded one
also the least corrupt and safer
No its basically kurdish forces , this video is just white washing them
Ie
The most civilized ones in the region
No they are just good at covering their crimes.
Yes, of course. Especially when they kidnap young women under the age of 18 and force them into compulsory service and fighting on raging fronts.😉😉
The account of the history of HTS 0:42 is like something pulled down from Wikipedia. It is so much more complicated.. moreover, the HTS hadn’t formed back then. The names and flags used are confusion, and they aren’t interchangeable, and the groups you think they merged with , this merger was incomplete and it was *not the cause* or the sufficient condition for the formation of the Julani group in the first place.
For example they split with Liwa al Haqq. “According to the correspondent of "Nedaa Syria" that Tahrir al-Sham set roadblocks linking the towns of Sarmin, Nayrab and Mesibein, where the remnants of the "Sham Army", which affiliated with the "Islamic State" organization, and includes both Liwa' al-Haq and the brigade of David, as HTS set barriers on the road between the city of Idlib and Sarmin, the cities of Ariha and Sarakib, and brought military reinforcements from neighboring areas.”
Parts of Jabhat Ansar ad Din Also left HTS. Jaysh al ahrar left HTS due to some issues about Muhaysini. “Jaysh al-Ahrar of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham declared its defection and separation from the Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, due to what they described as the “painful events on the inner level of what’s happening on the ground that we would have never accepted”. Jaysh al-Ahrar is composed of members of Ahrar al-Sham and its leaders who joined Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham about 10 months ago, and they announced in a statement of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has received a copy of, they explained the reasons for the separation and they said that a recent leak in Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham diminishes the Sharia scholars, they also said that a Judicial Committee will be formed to look into the “rights”.”
The core of HTS was Jabhat Fatah al sham. It absorbed people from other groups but HTS is build around the JFS sort of model
The main scholars who were around at the start of the formation of HTS are not around, and the guy who is the religious ideologist of HTS today is named Abdul Rahim Atoun.
No at 7:18 Manbij was already under their control by the time of the november-december Opposition offensive’s. They captured Deir Ez Zor Al Abu Kamal and Dayr Hafir. Two of them have since been liberated from their occupation.
Why is there no mention, of the undeniable fact, that Turkey supported and supplied ISIS? ...and what's with the uncertainty, of how long Israel intend to occupy any territory they take? They have never taken any areas, that they have been willing to leave. They always put in settlers.
Very informative video, as always, Hilbert! Thank you!
0:07 me getting paired up with the baddies during a group assignment
You are not really saying who controls what, you spend 90% of the video describing the factions of syria ansd their politics. Nobody cares about those here. We came here to see who controls what in syria as said on the title. So should us a map with whayt each sides controls what those lands contain and thats it. Don't tell us the ideology nor the founding principal crap. We already know these as its old news. All we want to know is who contrals what. Simple!
I would like higher volume
Brilliant video
never been this early before
What a timing to open youtube
Same
repeating propaganda that the Syrians tried to attack isreal on 67 is stupid
So how was it according to your view?
agreed
Thats exactly what happened lol
You better call Turkey Türkiye or Erdogan will get Luigi MaD!! (teleports behind him, nothing personal kid)
🦃
Can you do one on greater Israel
Israel hasn't expanded to mesopotamia so there is no Greater Israel lol
Bro I have zero, none, nada beef with the sound. If I had any though, surely I’d see the hundred comments about it and not feel the need to add my own complaint…
What a sad time it is to live there, at least in terms of stability and what little peace was still there.
Subtitles are wrong, it says "Assad" while you say "Ass-hat"
Also that sinterklaas mention lol
Syria for the Syrians
Syria for the Kurds.
so odd to hear “sinterklaas” in this video lol
Peace upon the Syrian people.
Man, Israel doing even more settler-colonialism, who would have thought?
They aren’t settling Golan
Yes, they are. The even said they want to settle it harder.
Op de dag van Sinterklaas...............💪😄
This comment section is filled with so much ignourance that is astounding
Sadly I don't think the SDF will be able to hold any territory west of the Euphraties but if they can get into the negoitation room fast they might end up leading a government as part of a larger probably fredualised Syria. Less central power more district power. That will mean handing over thier milltary assets over to a central milltary which is, as always dangerous.
Bliksem piebe wat in moai filmke
When talking about Al Jolani, he was kicked from Al Qaeda I think(I’m not 💯) because he wasn’t Khawarij, learn what that means so you can implement using that word
Okay video. Though the Alawites are also fighting in skirmishes near Russian bases reported by many people. Another L for USA Public accepting Taliban and Al-Qaeda as rulers as states-leaders.
Is it an L for the west to cheer on terrorists fighting terrorists?
♥️☀️💚
Russia and Iran in Syria:
• Shielded the SDF/YPG in Turkish borders.
• Bombed civilians, causing constant migration waves to Türkiye.
• Blocked Türkiye's efforts to create a safe zone for refugees.
• Rejected Türkiye's diplomatic offers.
Result: Türkiye pushed them out.
Save zone = conquered and occupied Kurdish lands
@@timstauffacher8663Yeah that "kurdish lands" somehow have arab majority.
@@timstauffacher8663(kurdish lands) nice joke
@@timstauffacher8663that area is arab majority
@@Aeterna71 Qamishli, Al-Hasakah, Kobani, Amuda, and Derik are majority Kurdish cities, not Arab. When it comes to Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, it was the Kurdish led forces who saved these cities from ISIS while the opposition and the Syrian government were preoccupied fighting each other. Let’s not forget Afrin, a historically Kurdish majority city, now controlled by the SNA
Syrian National Army, where Kurds have faced significant ethnic cleansing
second. Last time I was this early, Assad was the dictator
That really wasn’t that long ago 😂
@@stryke5729 indeed
Bring back Roman Syria fr
Teach me the language of zaza 😂
i control it
No you don't.
@YarPirates-vy7iv evidence?
One correction. The Israeli government has never suggested displacing anyone from the buffer zone in the eastern Golan Heights and permanently occupying it. The government HAS recently approved funding for housing growth in the Israeli side of the Golan Heights which were annexed back in the 1980s, but this is not in the buffer zone. Jerusalem has again and again clarified that their incursion beyond the border into the Syrian side of the Golan is temporary until it is determined a stable government is able to take control of the border on the Syrian side. While some Syrian Druze villages have requested to be annexed by the Israelis, Israel has given no indication that they intend this and certainly not planning on displacing peaceful residents.
I love Islam ❤
🇺🇸
Sinterklaas
from kuwait
Long Live Erdogan Sultan
First