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

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  • #362
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,090 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122934591#Comment_122934591

    North Korea are the ones propping up the Russian regime not the other way around.



  • #363
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122934552#Comment_122934552

    Here's the protestors pulling down a statue of Assad senior in Damascus. That was what I was referencing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ynjlajgLg


  • #364
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,169 ✭✭✭jmreire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122934607#Comment_122934607

    It says that the rebel forces have surrounded Damascus in that Video, is doesent say in Damascus. Could be anywhere withina 10 mile radius of the city..they are only now after taking Keswis, 15 klms outside the City, I know…I used to work there!



  • #365
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122934632#Comment_122934632

    The people pulling down the statue aren't necessarily uniformed armed rebels. It's showing the level of control that the Assad regime has lost throughout the country.



  • #366
    RoyalCelt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    There is footage of the veterinary medical hospital in Hama showing how the Iranian militias turned it into their headquarters. Something Iranian backed terrorists in Gaza were very familiar with. Wouldn't like to be Hezbollah now. HAMAS kaput and now Assad.



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  • #367
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,834 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    New theory on where Wally could be.

    https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1865483074806423623

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #368
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,834 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122934564#Comment_122934564

    If the reports about the Russian flotilla leaving are true, I suspect an opening in that area just became a lot easier.

    Id also doubt IZrael would let a chance go by to target Hezbollah troops moving into Syria.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #369
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,211 ✭✭✭yagan


    I'd say Assad is still in Damascus, otherwise there'd be a lot more than 2.000 Syrian army that have already crossed the Iraqi border for refuge.

    In the revolution era the IRA walked into many an RIC barracks and left with all the guns and some of RIC officers as new recruits.



  • #370
    j62
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭j62


    ”let it play out”

    IMG_5551.jpeg IMG_5552.jpeg


  • #371
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,217 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Syrian rebels moving on to Mount Hermon, height above the very north west of Golan, overlooking quite a few Israeli towns there and in Havot Sheba'a.

    That's unlikely to be tolerated, under the doctrine that every war that the neighbours lose against Israel must end with strategic defensive weaknesses being solved, the IDF will be squaring off the site in Golan to prevent the Jihadis from attacking in the future.

    Syria might end up carved up among thr neighbours



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  • #372
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122934666#Comment_122934666

    I'll wait for some confirmation of that, it seems odd that they would just pull out so quick. There's no real danger yet, the rebels still have no organised heavy weaponry and moving a fleet is pretty complicated, doubly so for the Russians taking the Bosporus and the current Black Sea situation into account



  • #373
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122934777#Comment_122934777

    That's been the current unofficial situation for the last 6 years or so anyway



  • #374
    Perseverance The Second
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭Perseverance The Second


    A very large uptick in activity around the Russian Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. Multiple airlifters have arrived at the base. 3 IL-76s and 1 AN-124. An-72 aircraft are normally forward based there. There also appears to be a Su-24 on the runway.

    https://x.com/thewarzonewire/status/1865490595948728428/photo/1

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  • #375
    Perseverance The Second
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭Perseverance The Second


    It also seems the Islamist rebels have taken the Homs Central Prison. Chances are the Assad forces will have fully withdrawn from Homs by start of tomorrow.

    https://x.com/nedalalamari/status/1865492005440152059

    Damascus is nearly cut off from the coast



  • #376
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,158 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    image.png

    An interesting and welcome development. Many of the significant powers involved on both sides have called for a halt to military operations to find a political solution.



  • #377
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Seems like the few fighters that Hezbollah could spare are retreating back to Lebanon.

    https://syria.liveuamap.com/en/2024/7-december-21-hundreds-of-hezbollah-fighters-withdrew-from



  • #378
    Rawr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,913 ✭✭✭Rawr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122934880#Comment_122934880

    The Russian position in Syria is only viable with Assad’s government there to back them up. If Damascus falls soon, the Russian bases could suddenly find themselves next to a Syrian faction that do not possess the same fealty to Putin that Assad has shown. Or next to a remnant of the Syrian Army who aren’t all that pushed from preventing the rebels from getting to the Russians.

    The Russians simply cannot afford to risk losing any more of thier gear in Syria. Likely much better in their minds to have as much of that kit as possible back in Russia for use in their Ukrainian mis-adventure.



  • #379
    j62
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭j62


    News channels showing celebrations on streets of Homs

    Next stop Damascus

    IMG_5556.jpeg


  • #380
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,446 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    I suppose one of the worst case scenarios in Syria is the re-emergence of Islamic State. The west may have to intervene much more very soon if Assad is toppled. Trump is saying it's not the business of the US but that's bs and they won't be able to stand back and watch an ISIS takeover. Years were spent to suppress and crush ISIS and it largely worked. I don't see them allowing a new home in Syria after all that.



  • #381
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,169 ✭✭✭jmreire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122934597#Comment_122934597

    The who is propping up who was not the point I was trying to make… more along the lines of " ****….could that happen to us too?"



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  • #382
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,169 ✭✭✭jmreire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122934639#Comment_122934639

    Do you think that all the rebels will be wearing uniforms? I've seen plenty of rebels, and for sure, not all of them were in uniform either!



  • #383
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122935092#Comment_122935092

    The post specifying uniformed rebels, would certainly suggest the presence of other rebels without.



  • #384
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,169 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Same thing with Putin. Seems to be a Dictator "thing" ! In places like Syria, Russia and similar places, to survive, you need to be like a weathervane, and a very sensitive weathervane at that!



  • #385
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,169 ✭✭✭jmreire


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122934880#Comment_122934880

    Anything that makes life harder for Russia has to be a good thing!!!



  • #386
    jmreire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,169 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Trump is no statesman, all that interests him his attacking his democratic predecessors, bad mounting them each and every chance he gets, the plan being to makes himself appear better. Well, he's coming in at a right time to solve the worlds problems…if he can!



  • #387
    RoyalCelt
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    Seeing all those Assad statues torn down is a reminder that anyone who builds statues of themselves is an absolute C**T.

    Holms has now fallen and the Syrian Army has now retreated from the mountains which are protecting the coast. Damascus on the verge of falling.



  • #388
    Mike3549
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭Mike3549


    Looks like its over for Assad.

    https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1865586990793560135?t=7bQJgxjpLbplvQ850xGu1w&s=19


  • #389
    wandererz
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    Reports that he left on a private plane and dismissed the soldiers guarding the airport.



  • #390
    igCorcaigh
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    Mad, I can't believe what's happening, after nearly, what, 15 years of bloodshed…



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  • #391
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,762 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Game-changer in the ME, surely.

    Why did Russia and Iran abandon Assad?



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