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

Yes, when ISIS was picking its murderous way through Iraq and Syria, using every savagery possible, they were often criticised by not only non-muslims, but by moderate Muslims as well. And all ISIS had to do was open the appropriate page of the Quran, and show where what they were doing was followig the Quran word for word..

I'm sure that a lot of Syrians won't want to go home and be ruled by a bunch of interfering misogynistic a-holes who demand complete control over all aspects of their everyday lives.

Don't know if this has been posted yet but here is just some of the collection of vehicles that Assad and his ilk had while the rest of his country was struggling and even starving,he was living like a King. Disgusting and horrible.

I hope the new Government sell them to get funds to run their new country with but from the quick read above it does not all look as nice as theh had said it would be it seems conservative and backwards.

They will have the UN on quick enough, investment from the Gulf states, they seem very big into investment and business.

Their leader wants to be a modern economy with strict Islamic sensibilities, a less fun Arabia.

It is their best bet and if it was half successful could drive a wave of jihadi state takeovers

It seems like this kind of thing never ends once you get into the retribution mindset and mob justice isn't known for being fair and considered. Once the jailers are dealt with, the crosshairs will probably settle on the general Alawite community and then the Kurds.

There are too many international players with an interest in Syria, backing armies in the territory, for there to be anything like peace and stability in the near term.

As bad as Assad was, and he was indeed very bad, if the history of Syria gets bloodier after his removal, then it can't be seen as a cause for celebration, but instead the opening of another chapter in the civil war.

Just one question for you….(one I've already mentioned before, but anyway..) With all the destruction Israel is raining on Palestinians, why are none of their Islamic neighbours not taking them in as refugees?

The Israeli's seemed to bomb Damascus as a hobby before HTS took over. I wonder if sanctions were lifted and diplomacy tried would that have been a better approach.

There seems to have been a lot of foreign actors arming and financing maniacs in Syria. How much blame do they share for the Assad regime. Hopefully things will get better in Syria not worse.

Because they know if they take them in, Israel will just move in to their land while they're not there.

Wrong. The last time there was a crisis that triggered a mass movement of Palestinian reugees into Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, in each case they tried to overthrow the existing Government's. Jordan fought a war with them, and in Egypt, the encouraged the Muslim Brotherhood to overthow the government as well Lebanon we have all seen what happened there. (Google Palestian issues with host country's.) I worked with Palestinian refugees is Syria, and they, their children and their children's children have a special passport, but not a Syrian one, despite being born in Syria, which severely limits their ability to travel anywhere. They are told that they cannot have a Syrian passport, because that would mean that they would never be able to return to their homeland, even when it was "free".

I've seen a few reports from Clarissa Ward on CNN over the past few days.

CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad’s forced detention

This hits home. The poor man, but equally lucky man.

Will the Syrians celebrating on Irish streets on RTE be going back to Syria?

If I was celebrating like they were then yes I would.

If they've no interest then stop celebrating and start integrating.

I didn't say they enjoyed full support of the people.

What i said was the Taliban would not have been able to maintain an insurgency for 20 odd years and then been able to eventually take over again if they didn't have a significant amount of supporters.

Because that mean they allow Israel to keep what they stole. Egypt was the only country in the region with a UN vote at the time of Israel's creation, the Palestinians didn't have a say but somehow Ecuador did.

The whole UN vote was a farce so at the best the two state solution is an attempt to remedy it. To accept that vote would be a betrayal of Palestinians.

Edit to add there are displaced communities of Palestinians in the countries surrounded what was Palestine, and most importantly few ever ask why there's refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank.