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Alawites have been genocide against Islam and Muslims while saying they worship ali and bashar
Syrian Civil War and The future of Syria after liberation
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Alawites have been genocide against Islam and Muslims while saying they worship ali and bashar
A1Kaid
THINK TANK: CONSULTANT
Obviously you see terrorists infiltrators and some anti-Assad factions celebrating, misconstruing that as a majority opinion is where you’re wrong.
When you have oppositional armed forces coming to take over your country people aren’t always going to go out and voice their opposition openly to the new guys with guns.
Muji.Iqbal
Trusted Member
Alright, you are entitled to your opinion.
Regardless, it appears the Syrian rebels have won.
hasn2009
Registered Member
Masjid Al-Zahra in Idlib, Syria, attacked by zionist funded HTS terrorists,
Looking at these images it makes it easy to believe what the ancestors of these people did to the family of Prohpet Mohammad saww, they can't even stand a mosque named Al-Zahra, and their ancestors couldn't stand the actual family. Pretty sure they wouldn't have any problem if the name of the masjid was something like Yazid or Marwan etc
Looking at these images it makes it easy to believe what the ancestors of these people did to the family of Prohpet Mohammad saww, they can't even stand a mosque named Al-Zahra, and their ancestors couldn't stand the actual family. Pretty sure they wouldn't have any problem if the name of the masjid was something like Yazid or Marwan etc
hyperman
INT'L MOD
Do you know what they did to Hama over and over again, not even the 1981 massacre where they slaughtered 40,000 sunnis. But the siege of Hama during the Arab spring. you are mistaken in you think people were accepting of assad outside of his narrow group of supporters. The revolution was widely supported.
mythbuster
Trusted Member
Neither Israel is all evil nor Muslims all angels ...... don't blame others for your own incompetence and skulduggery .
Muji.Iqbal
Trusted Member
BREAKING NEWS:
Syrian army command tells officers that Assad's rule has ended, officer says
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Timour Azhari and Jaida TahaDecember 7, 202411:05 PM ESTUpdated 21 min ago
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Syrian rebels advance on Damascus
- Summary
- Syrian army says Assad rule has ended
- Assad boards plane, leaves Damascus, say senior army officers
- Assad's destination unknown, officers say
- Rebels enter Damascus
- Thousands celebrate "Freedom" in Damascus
Syrian rebels said Damascus was "now free of Assad".
Earlier the leader who crushed all forms of dissent flew out of Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters, as rebels said they had entered the capital with no sign of army deployments.
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Thousands in cars and on foot congregated at a main square in Damascus waving and chanting "Freedom" from the long Assad family rule, witnesses said.
"We celebrate with the Syrian people the news of freeing our prisoners and releasing their chains and announcing the end of the era of injustice in Sednaya prison," said the rebels.
Sednaya is a large military prison on the outskirts Damascus where the Syrian government detained thousands.
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A Syrian Air plane took off from Damascus airport around the time the capital was reported to have been taken by rebels, according to data from the Flightradar website.
The aircraft initially flew towards Syria's coastal region, a stronghold of Assad's Alawite sect, but then made an abrupt U-turn and flew in the opposite direction for a few minutes before disappearing off the map.
Reuters could not immediately ascertain who was on board.
The head of Syria's main opposition group abroad Hadi al-Bahra Syrian on Sunday also declared that Damascus is now "without Bashar al-Assad".
As Syrians expressed joy, Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali said he is ready to support the continuity of governance and is prepared to cooperate with any leadership chosen by the Syrian people.
The frontlines of Syria's complex civil war were dormant for years. Then Islamists once affiliated with Al Qaeda suddenly burst into action, posing the biggest challenge to Assad, who had survived years of gruelling war and international isolation with the help of Russia, Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
But his allies were focused on and weakened by other crises, suddenly leaving Assad at the mercy of his opponents.
Just hours before reaching Damascus, rebels announced they had gained full control of the key city of Homs after only a day of fighting, leaving Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread.
Thousands of Homs residents poured onto the streets after the army withdrew from the central city, dancing and chanting "Assad is gone, Homs is free" and "Long live Syria and down with Bashar al-Assad".
Rebels fired into the air in celebration, and youths tore down posters of the Syrian president, whose territorial control has collapsed in a dizzying week-long retreat by the military.
The fall of Homs gave the insurgents control over Syria's strategic heartland and a key highway crossroads, severing Damascus from the coastal region that is the stronghold of Assad's Alawite sect and where his Russian allies have a naval base and air base.
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Homs' capture is also a powerful symbol of the rebel movement's dramatic comeback in the 13-year-old conflict. Swathes of Homs were destroyed by gruelling siege warfare between the rebels and the army years ago. The fighting ground down the insurgents, who were forced out.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham commander Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the main rebel leader, called the capture of Homs a historic moment and urged fighters not to harm "those who drop their arms".
Rebels freed thousands of detainees from the city prison. Security forces left in haste after burning their documents.
Syrian rebel commander Hassan Abdul Ghani said in a statement early Sunday that operations were ongoing to "completely liberate" the countryside around Damascus and rebel forces were looking toward the capital.
In one suburb, a statue of Assad's father, the late President Hafez al-Assad, was toppled and torn apart.
Outside the city, rebels swept across the entire southwest over 24 hours and established control.
EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO ASSAD RULE
The pace of events has stunned Arab capitals and raised fears of a new wave of regional instability.Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Russia issued a joint statement saying the crisis was a dangerous development and calling for a political solution.
Syria's civil war, which erupted in 2011 as an uprising against Assad's rule, dragged in big outside powers, created space for jihadist militants to plot attacks around the world and sent millions of refugees into neighbouring states.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the strongest rebel group, is the former al Qaeda affiliate in Syria regarded by the U.S. and others as a terrorist organisation, and many Syrians remain fearful it will impose draconian Islamist rule.
Golani has tried to reassure minorities that he will not interfere with them and the international community that he opposes Islamist attacks abroad. In Aleppo, which the rebels captured a week ago, there have not been reports of reprisals.
When asked on Saturday whether he believed Golani, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov replied, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating".
ALLIES' ROLE IN SUPPORTING ASSAD
Assad long rule relied on allies to subdue the rebels. Russian warplanes conducted bombing while Iran sent allied forces including Hezbollah and Iraqi militia to reinforce the Syrian military and storm insurgent strongholds.But Russia has been focused on the war in Ukraine since 2022 and Hezbollah has suffered big losses in its own gruelling war with Israel, significantly limiting its ability or that of Iran to bolster Assad.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has said the U.S. should not be involved in the conflict and should "let it play out".
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Reporting by Suleiman al-Khalidi in Damascus, Timour Azhari in Beirut, Jaidaa Taha in Cairo, Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali in Washington; Writing by Angus McDowall, Matt Spetalnick and Michael Perry and Michael Georgy; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and William Mallard
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mythbuster
Trusted Member
Knock it off man ... your nonsense is getting overbearing .
Muji.Iqbal
Trusted Member
Indeed, when the majority of Syrians are trying to reclaim their country from a tyrant.
Mirzali Khan
Trusted Member
Syrians sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people and have been displaced by the millions just to get to this point for 13 years
Are Pakistanis ready to make the same sacrifices?
Muji.Iqbal
Trusted Member
And how is toppling statues of Hafez-Al Assad by the Syrian people a "bs excuse?"
The Syrian people wanted Al Assad out of power, and now want democracy in Syria.
I think that is fair and right.
Muji.Iqbal
Trusted Member
Sorry mate, we are not Arabs to destroy our countries through civil war, although I do believe the Syrian revolution was justified.
