Syrian War

The Syrian War was a very bloody war that happened in the Middle East more specifically in the Greater Syria region (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan and Kuwait).

The war was still going on at the first years of the New Cold War, but then most of the islamist groups were already weak and the focuses became other. Even after its formal end Syria continued being in the scene of conflicts.

Beginning
After the end of the Syrian-Ottoman War, all of Greater Syria became one republic, the New Ba'athist Syria, it was ruled during the first years by a military junta but later a civilian government was established. Even with that, it was considered a police state and one of the most repressives and authoritarians in the world, as the government took a violent hand to crackdown on everything associated with Ottomanism and the opposition in general.

The government had announced a new "Arab Revolutionary Renaissance" (read United Arab Republicball article to understand what that means) in order to end with everything the government was against. AWTO criticized the campaign and said the government was violating human rights, the government said it was just fighting terrorism and that was the only correct way of doing so. In middle of it, a so called democratic opposition was founded in Damascus and received support of AWTO in order to build a “fair, liberal and democratic Syria”, naturally the government arrested their leadership and a lot of their supporters were killed. It was everything AWTO wanted.

AWTO activities
AWTO launched an attack against Syria after it continued the campaign. They invaded Palestine and took a large part of it in some weeks of fighting, the AWTO army was clearly superior to the Syrian one. The AWTO invasion of Palestine culiminated in the rise of islamists under the newly launched "Hard-Ottomanist" militant groups by the Ottomans, the origin of these groups are in the Ottoman wars with the SEC, when Syria was still liberating itsel from Ottoman military occupation.

The ba'athists couldn’t engage in direct war with AWTO. It was only when New Russian Federation emerged that they could grew again and firm their power, they were able to stop AWTO advances against Lebanon. AWTO then started to support the Syrian opposition to get in arms and revolt, but it seemed to had no effect because the troops of the opposition were too weak to defeat the government ones with Russian help. However, after a war blew up in the Caucasus by MAG islamists against Russia, a lot took the opportunity to do the same in Syria, MAG militants with STORM armaments attacked the border between Syria and Turkey, starting to invade Syria, and different from the AWTO backed opposition that was incompetent, they were well trained and were having success, this made them an indirect ally of AWTO.

The war then became between Syria and Russia against MAG. But AWTO hated seeing Russia supporting the Syrian government as it threatened their position in Palestine, so they left it under the command of Newer Israel, that was specifically founded for this reason. AWTO kept cooperation with Newer Israel and together began to support also MAG to raid Syria while they built nuclear weapons able to hit their targets.

Later together with Israel, AWTO launched a new offensive against Syria and Lebanon, taking under control areas they called “unstable” and with “high humanitarian crisis”, using their support to the legal opposition groups as an excuse to the occupation saying it was giving them a land. As the army was busy fighting MAG in the north, many independent groups raided and bombed the AWTO headquarters. At that point the government of Syria began to support what they called as “allied militias” that included a lot of group from socialist, communist, left-wing and islamic ideology that sympathized with the ba'athist government of Damascus, that included many shia led groups.

Ottoman involvement
The Ottomans then invaded the north of Syria and Iraq in order to help MAG militias as they started to be defeated. Even though the AWTO had invaded parts of Syria and Lebanon they didn’t clash with them and rather continued their expanse toward the Kurdistan until the east of Syria. Out of this, the government in Damascus was in danger of falling and a new Syrian-Ottoman War context could happen again, with the region becoming a total anarchy of militias.

Terrorism and collapse of the “Official Syrian Democratic opposition”
Terrorism grew on the region due to the MAG activities and the later one that joined the fights the IRC. Terrorist attacks began first as bombs against Syrian government areas but envolver into religious one like burning christian churches and shia mosques and religious sites.

MAG and IRC at least had the decency of not destroying historical sites since they were not wahhabists but still radical islamists that at the end of the day associated everyone that didn’t follow them with heresy.

AWTO had official relations and cooperated with the Ottomans, but claimed to not have contact with MAG. When the IRC bombed the AWTO troops stationed in Lebanon and Palestine, the Ottomans asked them to stop and focuses on fighting Syrian government in the north of Iraq.

The collapse of the so called Official Syrian Democratic opposition that also had the support of the Ottomans in the government areas forced AWTO to cooperate even more with the islamists in order to keep its project in the region alive. AWTO couldn’t use the legal opposition as an excuse anymore since many of their members joined the MAG and the IRC. AWTO still kept their nukes in Israel secure.

Russian involvement
Russian was tired of the situation against their allied government in Syria and saw it as a directly Western act of war against them. After killing most of the Caucasian islamists by forging an alliance with Chechens and Dagestanis, Russian warplanes left Armenia and heavily bombed the Ottoman positions in the north, plus the Russian navy left their military basis in Greece and landed in the Syrian city of Tartus.

Russia gave an ultimatum to AWTO leave their ilegally occupied territories in Lebanon and Palestine, they didn’t and so in Russia heavily bombed them and invaded it with more than 10.000 troops against 2.000 AWTO soldiers that were there.

AWTO became mad and began bombing it again, the Syrian army was strong and began raiding Israel. At this same time Russia had invaded Scandinavia and Kung China was consolidating itself in Asia, Russia threatened to nuke the AWTO reserves in Israel if they didn’t stop. AWTO realized they had no allies in Syria anymore except the Ottomans and that Russia became strong and fearing they could continue invading Europe, they preferred to leave Syria and just keep a basis at Israel in the Middle East.

In exchange Russia then withdrawal from Norway and accepted the border line of Lviv as official. But still this was of course a victory for the Syrian government and more than 3.000 Russian troops returned to home.

South Arabia reaction
The South Arabia reaction was important because the Republic of South Arabia controlled most of Arabian oil and they had cut it from AWTO in support to the Syrian government, so AWTO had to resort to other sources of energy, that was not really the problem since many alternatives to the oil existed that time. But overall that meant they lost the influence over the Arabian market. South Arabia also sent militias and some soldiers in support of Syria.

Iranian involvement
Following South Arabia actions and the constant advancements of the Ottomans in Iraq, the Iranian shia clerics declared a holy war against the “infidel ottomanists” and support to friendly Syrian government. Iranian army entered Iraq and pushed the Ottomans to the northern border again in the Kurdistan, many shia militias participated in the offensive. Later the shia militias raided the Ottoman border.

Palestinians and Lehman involvement
After AWTO stopped attacking a Syria, the Palestinians who were still loyal to Syria raised up against Israel. AWTO continued cooperating with the Ottomans in order to have a sympathetic Palestinian group and seeing the context it was better to side with them.

Many of the Palestinians joined Syrian led front in the hope of after the war they would all together liberate their lands and expel the zionists from Palestine. An authority in Palestine was created under the leadership of Abbas Mustapha.

The Lehman Bloc was a left-wing Jewish group founded in Russia and named after the communist Mordechai Lehmann who had been expelled from Israel by the zionists under the accusations of attempting to start "communist terrorism" in the country. Lehman formed their own Jewish battalion to fight against the Ottomans and the zionists, they were active in both Syria and Palestine, in Syria they were under the orders of the government and in Palestine they joined the broad front of Palestinian socialist militias.

Syrian government begins to take control of the war
The Syrian government with their allies began to smash the Ottomanist forces in the north of Syria and Iraq. The Ottoman relations with AWTO were exposed and their plan to destabilize the region in order to annex it later in assistance with the same organization that bombed Damascus made they lost support. Plus no Ottoman military moves against Israel while Syria and allies where there giving their lives to Palestine.

The Iranian troops withdrew from Iraq after Syria restored control over it and went to the north of Syria to assist them against IRC. MAG became weak after it, so the IRC took the scene.

North African support
In North Africa another defeat for the Ottoman side appeared when the pro-Gaddafi insurgent army with massive popular support expelled the Ottomans from their lands. Syria had been supporting them and even sent some supplies. The Arab Islamic Republic of North Africa was recognized and at this time the relations between the Ottomans and the AWTO were not good anymore due to AWTO that was busy in Europe blaming them on lack of competence.

The North African Jamahiriya sent their army to assist Syria and began supporting the creation of pro Syrian government sunni militias to make opposition to the Ottomanist speech on sunni muslims. The Gaddafi's Islamic Legion that was a popular militia in the fight against the Ottomans in North Africa and went to Syria too.

Chinese involvement
At the end, during the last battles against the IRC bastillion in north Syria, Kung China announced they would be sending a huge army to assist their allies Syria, Russia and Iran against the Ottomans and their allies.

China action was motivated due to many Uyghur terrorists that fled it to join the IRC in Syria and Iraq. The Chinese army went together with their warplanes, tanks and missiles.

The Syrian victory
After Russia joined the war it was just a matter of time to the Syrian government finally win the war and retake control over its north. The final battle against the IRC and the Ottomans in north of Syria where Russia, China and Iran all together crushed the Ottomanists and sent them back to Turkey defined the borders of the Greater Syria.

The Ottoman sultan said after losing the war in Syria that his only mistake was not having founded the MAG and the IRC during the Syrian-Ottoman War one decade before, as the islamist militias that fought that war were incompetent and disorganized. According to him, if MAG and the IRC were there, he would have conquered all of the Middle East and Africa, eliminating the "cancer" known as "Arab and Syrian nationalism".

Aftermath
AWTO agreed that it did wrong in supporting Israel and that it was a threat for the world and it also condemned Ottoman support for terrorist organizations. However they said they would refuse to recognize the New Ba'athist Syrian government as legit taking into account all the “crimes and tyranny” they committed during the war.

The victory officially signed the Moscow-Damascus pact or the Russian-Arab friendship where many economical, political and military treats were signed and Syria was included in the Chinese project of the new Silk Road that started in China to Iran, Central Asia, Russia and entered Syria to Yugoslavia and Greece. China paid the most for the rebuilt of Syria, Russia paid too but less since it took a more active military role.

Syria continued fighting against Israel allied with their Palestinian affiliated militias plus Lehman as it was promised. And the fight continued, even with the formal borders of the Syrian states, the Ottomans continued violating it occasionally and supporting the remnants of groups like MAG and IRC disturbing the peace inside Syria.