Reporting on Syria: When Ideology Covers Reality

German marxist newspaper fails to say the reality when it studies on its ideological comrades in Syria

The German every day junge Welt hails the dissolution of the SDF into Syria’s military as “mission completed” — with out mentioning the group’s file of battle crimes and its position as a US proxy power.

Stefan H. Heuer
August 27, 2026

The German every day newspaper junge Welt (younger world; jW) at present revealed an article on a subject that, for 15 years, has had my particular curiosity: Syria.

By self-determination, the jW is a Marxist newspaper. Based throughout the Soviet occupation organisation in Central Germany generally known as the “GDR” after World Battle II, the jW was the official publication of the “FDJ,” the youth organisation of the ruling Marxist social gathering “SED” on the time. Following the merger of the GDR with the West German US-led occupation construction to type the present-day Federal Republic of Germany, the jW is now run by a cooperative. In precept, I recognize this newspaper’s protection of Syria and all the opposite nations which were “blessed” with democracy and freedom by the “Western Values” serving U.S. and NATO (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Sudan, Mali, Serbia, Somalia, Lebanon and, certainly, Syria), despite the fact that I on no account share the paper’s ideological stance.

The latest article (jungewelt.de) now offers with the destiny of the Kurdish-dominated “SDF” forces after the autumn of Syria into the arms of Western-Arab-Russian supported jihadists below their frontman Al-Jolani, who now poses as “president” of Syria, authorised by no Syrians apart from Trump, his Arab vassals, Putin and the EU.

The SDF is being disbanded and its fighters — who, from 2015 onwards, had spent 9 years preventing in opposition to the common Syrian Arab Military and murdering civilians — are being built-in into the “Syrian” military, which at present shouldn’t be a Syrian military however a gang of HTS-approved terrorists, now costumed as troopers. Proper from its formation, the SDF had been cooperating with the USA, which the truth is is the primary instigator of aggression in opposition to Syria between 2011 and 2024.

My expensive pal Arabi Souri delivers an understanding of the position of the SDF in Syria:

“SDF — The abbreviation is utilized by a Kurdish-run militia working below the US command in northeastern Syria to carve out a pro-Israeli enclave state out of the Syrian territories which controls the primary water assets, oil fields, and fertile land of the nation. Kurdish SDF together with FSA Terrorists each work for the USA. SDF took benefit of one other US militia ISIS claiming to battle it and has labored efficiently as Trojans to lure a Turkish occupation of Syrian lands. Commanders of the SDF got here from the Iraqi Qandil Mountains and their weapons and logistics from USA with full assist from Israel.” (syrianews.cc/encyclopedia/sdf)

Nevertheless, this text of jW appears to me personally to be overly sympathetic and one-sided, coping with the Kurdish terrorist teams within the Center East which are ideologically aligned with the jW line. Isn’t it unusual {that a} Marxist newspaper, that normally appropriately studies and criticises the genocide in Gaza and the aggression by the unlawful Jewish entity occupying Palestine in opposition to Syria, Lebanon and Iran, turns a blind eye to the truth that these militias have carried out acts of atrocities and battle crimes and have been run by precisely these powers the jW usually rightfully criticises? Nicely, by understanding that those that have been behind the development of the ideology of Marxism and Communism additionally have been behind the muse of the unlawful entity “Israel” on stolen land, this positive aspects some logic.

With my article “Helpful Idiots: Reactionary Leftists Propagate The Destruction of Sovereign Nations“, I had already written about this phenomenon. There I said: “[…] the Kurds in Syria and Iraq the truth is are separatists, insurgents, utilizing terror and land-theft for reaching their purpose of a Kurdish state on annexed land. By this, they do play into the arms of these powers who carry out genocide and who oppress the Palestinians to safe the additional existence of the Zionist entity.”

That stated, I’m merely an observer trying on the occasions in Syria from the skin. I’m due to this fact sharing this text, in English translation, with my Syrian pals and anybody else who’s , and I go away it to them to guage each the article itself and the occasions described therein.

Translation:

Mission completed
Eleven years after their basis, the “Syrian Democratic Forces” are dissolved and built-in into the Syrian military. This follows a plan by the U.S.
By Nick Brauns

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are a factor of the previous. On Tuesday night, their Commander-in-Chief, Mazlum Abdi, introduced in Damascus the dissolution of the navy alliance which, because the defence power of the autonomous area of Rojava in north-eastern Syria, had nonetheless managed round a 3rd of Syria as not too long ago as final 12 months.

With the completion of the “integration” of the SDF as brigades into the Syrian military, the SDF’s earlier mission has come to an finish, Abdi defined following a gathering with Syria’s Islamist President Ahmed Al-Scharaa. He expressed the hope “that at present marks the start of an actual transformation — from the battlefields to the websites of reconstruction, from the period of arms to the period of peace, and from the unification of Syria to the rebuilding of Syria.”

The previous SDF items will likely be stationed within the Kurdish settlement areas of Hasaka, Qamishli and Derik, in addition to in Kobani. The Ladies’s Safety Items (YPJ), whose incorporation into the military is strictly opposed by the ruling Islamists, are to be built-in into counter-terrorism items of the Ministry of the Inside, reported the Kurdish media company Rudaw, citing “sources.”

Abdi is now to grow to be an adviser to Al-Scharaa on Kurdish affairs, while the previous spokesperson for the Autonomous Administration, Ilham Ahmed, is to be co-opted into the Syrian Parliament, reported the Arabic information portal Al Majalla. Moreover, it has been agreed to recognise Kurdish because the official language and the language of instruction for a number of topics within the Kurdish areas of the nation.

Ilham Ahmed, spokesperson for the Rojava Autonomous Administration, and Mazlum Abdi, Commander-in-Chief of the SDF, met with President Ahmed Al-Scharaa on the Presidential Palace on Tuesday, previous to the dissolution of the SDF.

The SDF, which at its peak comprised as much as 100,000 Kurdish and Arab troopers in addition to small contingents from Christian minority teams, had performed a decisive position within the victory over the jihadist group “Islamic State” (IS) round ten years in the past. Greater than 10,000 SDF fighters misplaced their lives within the course of. The formation of the navy alliance, centred on the Kurdish Individuals’s Safety Items (YPG) and Ladies’s Safety Items (YPJ) as its battle-hardened, disciplined core, was considerably supported by the US authorities in 2015. This was as a result of, out of consideration for its NATO associate Turkey, Washington didn’t need to present its navy support in opposition to IS on to the YPG, which Ankara classifies as a terrorist organisation as a result of its hyperlinks to the Kurdistan Employees’ Get together (PKK). Moreover, Washington hoped that this might allow it to higher comprise and reasonable the Kurdish rebels with their anarchist and feminist beliefs.

With the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad by the jihadist alliance HTS in late 2024, the SDF — which had additionally managed the Syrian oil fields — misplaced its worth to Washington as a way of exerting stress on Damascus. A US-brokered settlement to combine the administration and defence forces of the autonomous area into the Syrian state prevented impending massacres and mass expulsions following a lightning offensive by authorities forces on the autonomous territory in January this 12 months. By that time, nearly all of the Arab SDF items had already defected to the aspect of the Islamist authorities.

With the dissolution of the SDF as an impartial navy formation, the dream of many Kurds of a self-governing autonomous area seems, in the interim, to have come to an finish. While the Kurdish aspect is now being fobbed off with quite imprecise assurances concerning language rights and some posts throughout the state equipment which are topic to the whims of the unelected president, Al-Scharaa has taken a decisive step nearer to his objective of controlling the entire of Syria. “That is true integration: one military, one authorities, one state,” enthused the US Ambassador to Ankara and Particular Envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack, on the web platform X within the early hours of Wednesday morning. “As US President Donald Trump’s Center East plan progresses, a united Syria for all is rising,” Barrack added, making it clear who’s pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Finish of translation

I must say that it doesn’t fulfill me to see that the ultimate assertion in my 2017 article appears to have proved true: “The Kurds […] appear to take pleasure in being pawns within the recreation of satanic genocidal monsters…”

They fought in opposition to a unified Syria below the presidency of Bashar al-Assad. With al-Jolani and his cronies, the Kurds now could have precisely the form of regime in Damascus that fits them.

Stefan H. Heuer, M.A.
Historian, born in 1964. Has labored as a lecturer in grownup training and, amongst others, in human assets growth for a US-American firm in Germany.

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