The End of Assad? Syrian Rebels enter the outskirts of Aleppo for the first time since 2016

Another statue of modern day Hitler pulled down this time at the southern entrance to Hama.

This looks like the end of Syria as we know it. The speed at which Assad's regime is collapsing suggests it's in a dire straights, tanks and air defence systems just abandoned. No one even tried to stand and fight.

With huge swathes of the country now back under rebel control and with Russia weakened, Assad simply won't have the weapons, money, or manpower to retake them. There are just too many foreign powers stronger than Russia who are backing the rebel groups. It's only a matter of time until he's toppled.

I am guessing the Sunni Islamists will end up controlling the vast majority of the country, maybe a Shia/Alawite territory emerges on the coast? As for the rest of Syria? I can't imagine it'll be too safe for and Druze, Christians, or Yazidi's. They will probably need to leave before they are forcibly removed by the Islamists.

The most optimistic hope here is a "clean" and fast separation. The nightmare scenario is the rebels topple Assad, then try to assert control over the entire country. Then we're back to square one again, just a new Assad.

Well they were wrong, so are you?

It's not the only map with that update now.

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They celebrated the death of Nasrallah, but mourned Haniyeh's death and praised October 7th. They are not to be trusted. It's bad news if they become the dominant player should the Assad regime fall.

The war is only just getting started. After years of relative peace, Syria is once again going to be the battleground of the middle east as Turkey, US, Israel, Iran and Russia all fight by proxy to protect their interests.

Iran and Iraq may send troops to back the regime soon which will further escalate things. And US based in Northern Syria/Iraq may see more strikes against them in retaliation for their strikes on Hezbollah/Iranian supplies transiting the desert.

Ukraine and Turkey have been training and supplying HTS with FOV drones for a while now, and this will continue. Maybe Putin will throw another strop and send another ballistic missile at Dnipro for all the good that will do. Reality is they can't do much unless they fully confront Turkey which they do not want to do.

So the fight back begins…..

Because the Saud Family are keepers of the holy sites. Theres been discussions about just why the Saud family should have this honour, but it has never come to attacking them. Imagine, Muslims attacking in or near the Holy Sites??

Seems to be the case. Let's see if they can stop it and repulse them or are easily dealt with themselves.

Just take reports with a grain salt. The Syrian conflict is fairly notorious for having actions that seem to only take place on Twitter. Seen similar reports the last few days supposedly taking place at Aleppo and Hama.

That's it exactly 100%. More if these are Assad's elite units and they are taken out then I would say Assad is finished as other less capable units wont fight. Assad forces need a win and v soon.