Syria’s Proxy President, the App that Fried Assad and the future of the Kurds with Aya Burweila

From a Camp Bucca cell to the presidential palace in Damascus—how did a former al-Qaeda commander pull off the most improbable comeback of the decade?

In Part Two of this explosive episode, Aya Burweila (@burweila) unpacks the spyware-fueled fall of Assad’s army, Turkey’s stake in rebuilding what it helped destroy, and the Western policy decisions that paved the way for Syria’s new proxy president, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani. With exclusive insights from Dilliman Abdulkader of American Friends of Kurdistan and an exposé on foreign jihadist integration, this episode reveals how a warlord became a business partner—and why sanctions relief without reform could doom Syria’s future.

📌 Segments include:
Previously on The Jungle
Kurdish Unity Conference
Interview with Dilliman Abdulkader
The spyware app that fried Assad’s army
Camp Bucca: The jihadist LinkedIn
Jolani’s rebrand, Ambassador Robert Ford and the NGO rabbit hole
Sanctions relief or kleptocracy express?
– Turkey’s buyout of Syria
– Preview of next week’s Libya episode

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