Syria Burning: ISIS and the Death of the Arab Spring by Charles Glass

Author:Charles Glass
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS026000
ISBN: e9781939293893
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2015-04-16T04:00:00+00:00

France’s Armée du Levant engaged in nearly ­continuous counterinsurgency from the moment it invaded Syria. The Alawite minority under Salih al-Ali fought the French for a year in the northwest, as did a largely Sunni force led by a Kurdish former Ottoman officer, Ibrahim Hananu, around Aleppo. In the Hauran and its mountain, alternately called Jabal Hauran and Jabal Druze, the French skirmished often with King Feisal’s former partisans, who made ­cross-border raids from his brother Abdallah’s new ­principality of Transjordan. Many Druze fought them until 1922, when France granted a “Druze Charter of ­Independence” with local autonomy and an elected Druze Majlis or Council. By the time Général ­Maurice Sarrail, France’s third High Commissioner in four years, disembarked in Beirut on January 2, 1925, Syria had been subdued.

Nowhere appeared quieter than the formerly turbulent Druze region in the highlands of the Hauran. The Majlis had even chosen a French officer, Captain Gabriel Carbillet, as governor in July 1923, when they could not agree on a Druze candidate. Carbillet was a man of the Left, anti-clerical and a Freemason, who determined to bring égalité to the Druze by enfeebling their aristocracy. Joyce Laverty Miller wrote in the International Journal of Middle East Studies in 1977:

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