Syria’s new HTS government is a vehicle for imperialism’s struggle to control the Middle East

Despite the rhetoric about a global war against Islamist terrorism, the US has long utilised reactionary Islamist groups in the Middle East and Asia. Al-Qaeda was created by the CIA and Pakistani intelligence, with aid and finance from the Saudi monarchy, under the leadership of Osama bin-Laden during the US-instigated war against the pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan in the 1980s.