Father God,
Have mercy on our brothers and sisters in the Middle East. Strengthen and encourage them to continue to stand! Provide in abundance everything that is needed for life and Godliness! We bless our brothers and sister and pray that the Kingdom of .God will continue to grow and expand in that region!
Let Your Kingdom come and Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven for Your glory! In Yeshua’s Holy Name, Amen

Pray for missing U.S. journalist in Syria, Austin Tice, to be returned home. He has been missing for 12 years and reports indicate he is alive. May God speedily deliver him safely home to his family!

“FATHER, watch over US Army Rangers and Syrian Christians, Jews, Kurds, Druze, Circassians… IN YESHUA’S HOLY NAME AMEN AMEN” dennis

From jpost.com “‘Murdering Kurds on the street’: Syrian Druze warns of Islamist Extremism” …factions that took over Aleppo destroyed Christmas trees that were set up for the holiday. They are murdering Kurds in the streets,” he noted, adding, “Their slogans are ‘Jihad’ and ‘Allahu Akbar.'”

Isaiah 45: 23  I make this solemn vow; I have spoken a word—
 faithful and true—and it will not return; it will be done.
 My words have wings; they will be accomplished;
 every knee will bow down to Me.
 Every tongue will swear allegiance to Me.

Dear Lord, You are Almighty God and if the wicked are not trembling, they are foolish. As I was praying for Syria, I asked for this country to be returned to Syrians: not Islamists, not Turks, not Israelis, not Americans, You turned my thinking to rebuilding and restoring…removing every vestige of evil suffered in the past 50 years. I pray for the removal to commence with special favor to:
-the imprisoned who have just been released, one mentioned was a teen who was born and reared in that hell hole…another, a 3 year old who toddled out when the cell door was finally opened. O my God! Help the thousands who are still alive and who have suffered so horrendously!
-the White Hats, who for years have worked tirelessly to provide aid
-the Kurds who have fought for years despite being persecuted by Erdogan
-every US military person serving in this region
-Christians who are EVER persecuted
– Druze who fight….
Father, only You know (perfectly) how to return this nation to its rightful owners. Please finish what You have begun in a way that astounds the world. I pray for You to declare a solemn vow; Your spoken word—
 faithful and true—to get it done! I believe Your words have wings; they will be accomplished;
 every knee will bow down to You and every tongue in Syria will swear allegiance to You. I ask this and so much more in the Name of Jesus Christ who said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” Amen

Speaking to the nation this afternoon, President Joe Biden announced: “At long last, the Assad regime has fallen. This regime brutalized and tortured and killed literally hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrians.” He called the fall of Assad’s regime a “fundamental act of justice” and “a moment of historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a better future for their proud country.”
But it is also “a moment of risk and uncertainty,” the president said. He noted that the U.S. is “mindful” of the security of Americans in Syria, including freelance journalist Austin Tice, who was kidnapped in 2012 and imprisoned by Assad’s regime. “[W]e believe he is alive,” Biden told reporters. “We think we can get him back, but we have no direct evidence of that yet.”
Biden noted that Syria’s main backers, Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia, could not defend “this abhorrent regime in Syria” because they “are far weaker today than when I took office.” He continued: “This is a direct result of the blows that Ukraine [and] Israel” have landed on them “with the unflagging support of the United States.”
In contrast to Biden’s comments, President-elect Donald Trump’s social media accounts took Russia’s side in the Syrian events. Noting that the insurgents looked as if they would throw Assad out, Trump’s account said that “Russia, because they are so tied up in Ukraine, and with the loss there of over 600,000 soldiers, seems incapable of stopping this literal march through Syria, a country they have protected for years.” The account blamed former president Barack Obama for the crisis of 2011 and said that Russia had stepped in then to stop the chaos. The Trump account suggested that Assad’s defeat might be “the best thing that can happen to” Russia, because “[t]here was never much of a benefit in Syria for Russia, other than to make Obama look really stupid.”
“In any event,” the account continued, “Syria is a mess, but is not our friend, & THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED!”
In contrast to Trump’s focus on Russia, journalist Anne Applebaum, a scholar of autocracy, took a much broader view of the meaning of Assad’s fall. In dictatorships, she wrote in The Atlantic, “cold, deliberate, well-planned cruelty” like Assad’s “is meant to inspire hopelessness. Ludicrous lies and cynical propaganda campaigns are meant to create apathy and nihilism.” Random arrests create destabilizing waves of refugees that leave those who remain in despair.
Authoritarian regimes seek “to rob people of any ability to plan for a different future, to convince people that their dictatorships are eternal. ‘Our leader forever’” she points out, was the slogan of the Assad dynasty. But soldiers and police officers have relatives who suffer under the regime, and their loyalty is not assured, as Assad has now learned.