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

It's amazing that a regime which held power for over 50 years fell so quickly.

There is no Syrian state anymore, the country has ceased to exist. It's up to other countries now to claim parts of it.

I fear it’s going to be another Afghanistan though. For the women in particular that would be far worse than life under Assad.

There seems to be very little concern about what might be in store for women from HTS, here and in the media coverage generally.

Which is upsetting to me but not really surprising.

You'd think Michael D and the keffiyeh TD's would be trying to save Assad and Hezbollah from genocide.

Hasmt the last decade effectively been a civil war?

It'll be just like the Taliban and Afghanistan.

HTS will pinky promise that they will respect the rights of all peoples, and they might even stick with it for a few months. When attention moves away to the next thing and the cameras go home, the crackdowns will start.

Apologies if this has been asked before ( I only just found the thread ), with the turmoil in Damascus unfolding, is there any chance that Syria might hand over Eli Cohen’s body?

I think you can throw a bit of Vietnam into that bunch as well.

Has something happened in the Middle East? It's the fault of this personality called the "evil West" who are the real baddies.

I remember when the uprising was happening in 2011, these types were creating a Schrodinger's situation where we were entirely to blame for Assad, for the uprising against him, for the rebels, and for whatever was occurring after. As if no one in the world has any agency.

Russia is 'Western Poodle'. You read it here first.

Thats what I fully expect myself. I'm just annoyed about the lack of interest in this aspect in the western media coverage of it all.

Nobody seems to care about women at all, except when it also suits men's interests to (pretend to) care.

So all the talk about what might happen, better than Assad/worse etc - it all pretty much ignores that any Islamist regime is definitely going to be worse for women. Worse than Assad for sure.

But that's very much a secondary issue for the media and indeed for boards.ie.