Gives you the history, back to 1948. One little excerpt:
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/the-revolutionary-distemper-in-syria-that-wasnt/
"...
Islamists played a lead role in drafting the Damascus Declaration in
the mid-2000s, which demanded regime change. [25] In 2007, the
Muslim Brothers, the archetypal Sunni political Islamist movement,
which inspired Al-Qaeda and its progeny, Jabhat al Nusra and Islamic
State, teamed up with a former Syrian vice-president to found the
National Salvation Front. The front met frequently with the US State
Department and the US National Security Council, as well as with the
US government-funded Middle East Partnership Initiative, [26] which
did openly what the CIA once did covertly, namely, funnel money and
expertise to fifth columnists in countries whose governments
Washington opposed.
..."
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