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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Dude he was fighting the Kurds in Manbij and Efrin with Al-Nusra in like 2016. He founded Al-Nusra, an offshoot of Al-Quaeda, in 2012.

https://www.understandingwar.org/report/jabhat-al-nusra-syria

In January 2012, a group called Jabhat al-Nusra announced itself as al-Qaeda’s Syrian franchise, and the following month al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri called for Sunnis from around the region to join a jihad against the regime. Jabhat al-Nusra gained Syrian and foreign recruits as it scored greater battlefield successes than rival opposition groups.

In April 2013, a separate group formed from the remnants of al-Qaeda in Iraq that called itself the Islamic State of Iraq emerged and exceeded even Jabhat al-Nusra in its brutality

https://www.cfr.org/article/syrias-civil-war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ras_al-Ayn_(2012%E2%80%9313)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Who were the "good guys" in the Syrian Civil War? Did you read beyond 2016?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe not the guy who was and still to some degree practice sexual slavery in the regions he controls.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Overall probably the Kurds.

Certainly not the Salafist and jihadists.