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

Bashar al-Assad is only 59.

The hope is one day justice will find him.

He deserves to answer for his horror as does the pond scum harbouring him.

Because Erdogan dreams about new ottoman Raich and Qatar want their pipeline and they foolishly think they can reign them in after they used them to get rid of Assad.

They could have had self determination in a secular state,

Where? What secular state would this be, if it were not for Israel?

Some support from the local people for terrorists who inflicted the strictest form of Sharia on them? Out to what had been a sports field (before the Taliban abolished sport) after Friday prayers at the mosque to administer Allah's justice? Floggings, amputations, stonings etc. I never met a real supporter of the Taliban while i was there. People paid lip service to them, and the women were terrified of them with good reason. Most of the attacking came from across the border with Pakistan. They would attack in Afghanstan, then just melt back across the border into Pakistan. The Taliban are just murderous invaders, hiding behind religion, same as the Iranian Mullahs, or Isis.

Full of fertile land… Yes it is when they get rain! For 3 years in a row including 2011, the crops failed ( climate change?) and people flooded into the cities looking for help which was not available, so they started the protests which led to the civil war.

Definitely not good….when you think about the horrors the Russians inflicted on the Syrian people in general, but on the rebels especially, I find it hard to believe that there woukld be any sort of communication between them, except the bullet kind.

And more adding as we speak.

Looks like the south west will end up free and a Druze region protected by Israel.

Either that or extermination, slavery and repression under Sharia.

Hopefully the Christian and alwaite etc will be able to hold the western coast of Syria but it is too far from Israel and too close to Turkey to be protected.

No.

Interesting piece in the Guardian about how the rebels coordinated and created a drone unit to take down Assad. Had largely stopped following the conflict a few years ago, had no idea they were this well organised.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/13/syrian-rebels-reveal-year-long-plot-that-brought-down-assad-regime

With the political command slowly unifying, al-Hamwi set to work on training the group’s fighters and to develop a comprehensive military doctrine.

Al-Hamwi said: “We studied the enemy thoroughly, analysing their tactics, both day and night, and used these insights to develop our own forces.”

The group, which was made up of insurgents, slowly became a disciplined fighting force. Military branches, units and security forces were created.

HTS also began to produce its own weaponry, vehicles and ammunition. Outgunned by the Assad regime, which had an airforce and the backing of Russia and Iran, the group knew that it needed to get creative to make the most out of limited resources.

A drone unit was created, bringing together engineers, mechanics and chemists. “We unified their knowledge and set clear objectives: we needed reconnaissance drones, attack drones and suicide drones, with a focus on range and endurance,” al-Hamwi said, adding that drone production started in 2019.

The latest iteration of HTS drones was a new model of suicide drone, named the “Shahin” drone by al-Hamwi himself, Arabic for falcon, “symbolising their precision and power”. The Shahin drone was deployed for the first time against regime forces this month, with devastating effectiveness. Artillery military vehicles were disabled by the cheap but effective aircraft."

(Usual disclaimer this isn't support for HTS/Islamists)

Mirrors Russia's right to defend itself by seizing land from Ukraine I suppose……………….

Isn't it a bit convenient that no matter what happens, the zionist's "rights" always ends up with them appropriating land which used to belong to other people………..buffer zones are carved out of what other people used to own, later populated with zinoists, and then a crisis is manufactured which "necessitates" a new buffer zone outside of their previous one. Rinse and repeat. I posted it on another thread, but I would not be surprised if a large swathe of Syria is carved out beyond the buffer and the Gazans are forcibly expelled there.

It will be sorted in a day

Who knows but the Arabic world is not secular and not socialist, probably the least socialist or secular and most extremely antin socialist region in the world today.

The PLO had a left wing leadership once, there were left wing parties dominant many States and revolutions but that world, a colonial product, is long gone.

Did America, the Soviets and others do wrong and awful things there, no doubt.

Oh, so you meant Jews could have lived in an Arab majority 'secular' state under the cosh of clerics and Muslims?

My god, you are naive.

Look at how secular the Arab world is now. It's a good thing they didn't take up that offer, otherwise their heads would be getting chopped off on a daily basis, and gays, atheists and other 'unlcean' people would be killed.