Syrian Civil War and The future of Syria after liberation

[ghazi52]

A long traffic jam as people gathered at the Saydnaya prison in Syria on December 9, 2024.







People wait as the volunteer group Syrian Civil Defense investigated the inside of Saydnaya Prison after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria on December 9, 2024.

 

[ghazi52]

A desperate search fueled by fear​

CNN

This was the rumor that spurred the crowds on Monday – the idea that somewhere buried inside Saydnaya was a warren of undiscovered holding cells packed with missing Syrians.

But it’s not clear if the area even exists, deepening fears that those deemed missing may never be found.

The volunteer organization Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, deployed special teams to the prison who drilled and hammered through concrete on Monday.

Rebel fighters shouted for people to be quiet so that the voices of any detainees trapped inside might be heard by the rescue workers. A hush fell over the crowd and some got down on their knees as they waited for confirmation. A sniffer dog lent support. But no entrance was found.

In a statement later Monday, the White Helmets said they’d found “no evidence of undiscovered secret cells or basements,” or any “unopened or hidden areas within the facility.” They said the search for possible prisoners at the prison had ended and urged people on social media to avoid spreading misinformation.

The Association of Detainees and the Missing in Seydnayah Prison (ADMSP) said all prisoners had been released by midday Sunday, and that claims about detainees trapped underground were “unfounded” and “inaccurate.”

Mounir Al-Fakir, a former Saydnaya detainee and a founding partner at ADMSP, told CNN the facility contains one underground level of cells, but he does not believe it likely that there are hidden layers below that. About 3,000 detainees had been released after the liberation of Damascus, he estimated.

But the desperation of families combing through the prison on Monday – sifting through the vast trove of documents left behind, using cellphone flashlights in the darkness – reflects the agony of waiting for years with no clue what had happened to their loved ones within Saydnaya’s cramped and dingy cells.

One woman held up a photo of her brother, taken 12 years ago, his fate unknown. He would be 42 by now, she said.

 

[ghazi52]

Syria is free of its dictator. The rebels’ biggest challenge now is learning how to govern​

Analysis by Mostafa Salem, CNN
December 10, 2024

People wave guns in the air as they gather to celebrate the fall of the Syrian regime in Umayyad Square on Sunday in Damascus, Syria.
Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images

The sound of celebratory gunfire filled the streets of Damascus in the hours following the collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

But the jubilant scenes at the weekend that greeted the end of half a century of tyranny could not mask the scale of the challenge facing the victorious Islamist rebels whose lightning advance on the Syrian capital captured the world’s attention.

Those rebels – led by the group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) – must now try to unite a country cleaved apart by more than a decade of civil war, one in which dozens of heavily armed militias and remnants of the old regime linger.

The chaos that followed in the hours after the capital’s fall gave a stark reminder of the enormity of that task.

At least 28 people were killed by that celebratory gunfire, the Syrian health minister told Al-Arabiya news channel. Meanwhile, civilians broke into Assad’s palaces, looted shops and stole bags of cash from the central bank – prompting the rebels to declare a 13-hour curfew.

 

[hussain0216]

Israel is winning because it has a plan and is willing to wield the axe of power unashamedly.
These people do not care about opinions or whether you know that they lie and deceive.
ISRAEL WIPES OUT SYRIA'S MILITARY CAPABILITIES so the new government will not longer pose a threat to them. Israel doesn't care who's in charge of Syria. They can bomb you back to the stone age. Might is right. They are also sending a message to jolani. "**** around and find out" .
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It's the U.S

Tens of billions of air jew'ed out of the U.S tax payer
Thousands of deliveries of weapons
Massive diplomatic cover and blocking everything from the U.N to the ICC

At the moment U.N, ICC, ICJ, Amnesty, multiple other NGOs are clear Israel is a apartheid state guilty of genocide and needs to be dealt with

Hell even the pope is reaching out to the Palestinians


The U.S is the current world superpower and the Jews hooks are into it and that's the problem

As soon as you can either weaken the U.S
Create a more balanced world with multiple poles of power
Or convince the American youth of the future that Israel is a scummy nation you can start to change the equation

 

[Foinikas]

Also some users where saying that nobody in the region was reacting to illegal Israeli actions in southern Syria. Practically every Arab country has officially condemned Israel. Problem is that not much can be done about it due to the situation in Syria, Lebanon/Hezbollah next door not being able to do anything to stop it and the less said about Jordan the better. This cannot continue even though Israel claims it is temporary but nobody believes their fairytales. They have zero credibility and are a terrorist state.



China throughout its entire history has never expanded much outside of their historical borders so their current cautious and even inactive policies outside of mainland China are normal. I am not the least surprised and I don't think that it will change. With the future demographic collapse in China even less so.

They never played a role anywhere outside East Asia itself.

You got banned and you came back with another nickname?

 

[Foinikas]

After seeing Assad sitting on the sidelines while thousands of innocent Palestinians were brutally murdered by Israelis, that was the last straw. The Syrian army basically joined HTS and gave Assad the big fat middle finger. It's time for new leadership in Syria.

The Syrian government was barely surviving and you wanted them to attack Israel? Are you kidding?

 

[_Arabia_]

You got banned and you came back with another nickname?

@Musings help this guy out, he needs it.

The Syrian government was barely surviving and you wanted them to attack Israel? Are you kidding?

Stop your senseless troll posts that might fool non-Arabs unfamiliar with Syria and the Al-Assad regime.

The useless and incompetent Al-Assad regime that you are shamelessly cheerleading for, were the ones that lost territory to Israel (Golan Heights) during their 1967 failures and the same Al-Assad regime that did nothing to regain it. The same Al-Assad regime that has been bombed by Israel for 20 + years and long before the Arab Spring began. Once again without a reply.

Operation Outside the Box - Wikipedia

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Read your ridiculous post again. You give the benefit of doubt to the Al-Assad regime during freaking 50 + years, yet you expect Syrians who just liberated their country (not even fully yet) to fight Israel within 48 hours?

Even more ridiculous do you know that SAA soldiers stationed along the Golan Heights left without fighting as did their Russian allies who handed over their bases to Israel? So what are you even talking about?

 

[Musings]

You got banned and you came back with another nickname?

There was an issue with his flags and we resolved it - now discuss the topic and leave the moderating to the team

 

[ghazi52]

Collapse of Assad's government fuels Israeli occupation and strikes on Syria​

Israel exploits Syria's chaos to expand territorial control, deepening its occupation and aggression

NEWSDESK
December 10, 2024

The collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has thrown Syria into chaos, and Israel is swiftly capitalising on the situation.

Exploiting the instability on its northern border, Israel is pushing forward with its expansionist agenda, invading into and occupying more Syrian land, particularly in the Golan Heights area.

In a clear act of territorial aggression, Israel recently seized a 400-square-kilometre area in Syria's demilitarised buffer zone, established by the United Nations in 1974 following the ceasefire between Israel and Syria.

This zone, once patrolled by UN peacekeepers to maintain peace, is now under Israeli military control.

With Syrian forces absent from the region, Israel justifies its actions as a means of securing its northern border, but many view it as a calculated land grab.

Israeli forces have also advanced further into southern Syria, reaching approximately 25 km from Damascus, including the area of Qatana, which lies 10 km inside Syria's border.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry condemned Israel’s actions as violations of international law, accusing Israel of exploiting Syria’s instability to extend its territorial control. Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, seized during the 1967 Six-Day War, remains unrecognised by most of the international community.

 

[ghazi52]

Israeli Airstrikes and escalating violence

Israel's aggression is not limited to territorial occupation. The Israeli military has conducted over 100 airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks, targeting military sites, including facilities linked to chemical weapons production and missile development.

These strikes, which have killed at least 68 people, including Syrian soldiers and foreign fighters, exacerbate Syria’s instability. Israel’s claims of targeting only "extremists" obscure its broader objective of solidifying its occupation of Syrian territories, particularly the Golan Heights.

The ongoing violence is part of a broader pattern of military action by Israel, including its deadly war on Gaza, which has claimed over 44,700 lives since October last year, mostly women and children.

Lebanese health authorities have also report edthat since October 2023, Israeli airstrikes and attacks on Lebanon have resulted in over 4,000 deaths and more than 16,500 injuries. Additionally, more than one million people have been displaced due to the ongoing violence.

In a significant move last month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, charging them with war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

Furthermore, Israel is now facing a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza, with an Amnesty International investigation also concluding that Israel's military actions amount to genocide against Palestinians in the region.

 

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total destruction and targeted assassinations

 

[ghazi52]

Assad planned to ‘abandon the government’​

CNN
For now, it is not even entirely clear what form the next government will take.

After the capture of Damascus, the rebels instructed Assad’s Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali to continue his duties alongside his cabinet until a transitional team is assigned.

But Jalali had few answers on the future of the city’s governance when he spoke to Sky News Arabia.

His colleagues seemed equally unsure.

“We spoke to the prime minister and the direction was that work should continue, we are adamant that normal life returns … we have heard that a transitional government will be formed but we don’t know when,” the Assad government’s Minister of Industry Mohammad Samer al-Khalil told CNN in a phone interview.

The vacuum facing the rebels could even be seen as a parting gift from Assad.

Assad, who has not issued any public statements since the rebel advance began two weeks ago, appeared to have planned to “abandon his government, his people and his country and leave it in chaos” if the situation deteriorated, his prime minister said. “Perhaps to send a message to the people that ‘it is either me, or chaos’.”

Jalali said he had spoken to Assad hours before the president fled to Moscow, to express concern about the rebels’ movements, but the president was indifferent.

“When I told him the situation is critical, people are fleeing Homs toward the coast and the armed forces have collapsed… his response was ‘we’ll attend to it tomorrow,’” the prime minister said. “I was surprised.”

 

[TruthSeeker]

Israeli jets strike 300 targets in Syria, aircraft and naval fleet destroyed

Israeli security sources indicate that these actions have significantly expanded the Air Force's operational freedom.

www.jpost.com

Israeli jets strike 300 targets in Syria, aircraft and naval fleet destroyed​

Israeli security sources indicate that these actions have significantly expanded the Air Force's operational freedom.​

By AMIR BOHBOT, REUTERS, SAM HALPERN, MATHILDA HELLER, JERUSALEM POST STAFF, RAQUEL GUERTZENSTEIN FROHLICHDECEMBER 10, 2024 03:51Updated: DECEMBER 10, 2024 15:41

Israel's air force carried out about 300 strikes in Syria in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to Israeli security sources.

Most of the strikes were in southern Syria and around the city of Damascus, targeting Syrian army bases, with an emphasis on air defense systems and stores of surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles.

Israeli security sources indicate that these actions have significantly expanded the air force's operational freedom.

Additionally, there have been attempts by Hezbollah to seize Syrian weaponry.

On Monday evening, two Syrian security sources told Reuters that IAF jets had struck at least three major Syrian army air bases that housed dozens of helicopters and jets.

Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike in Syria. (credit: SCREENSHOT/X, SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT)
The Qamishli air base in northeast Syria, the Shinshar base in the countryside of Homs, and the Aqrba airport southwest of the capital Damascus were all hit, the sources said.

The air force also reportedly carried out several strikes on a research center on the outskirts of Damascus and a center for electronic warfare near the Sayeda Zainab area of the capital.

Israeli tanks spotted not far from Damascus​

Also on Tuesday morning, citing Arab reports, Israeli media reported that IDF tanks were spotted approximately 20 km from Damascus.

According to Reuters, the IAF sunk several Syrian military vessels in their home port. The IDF later confirmed that the Israeli navy had conducted a large-scale operation overnight to destroy Syria's naval fleet.

"The attack was carried out using Navy missile ships, during which many Syrian naval vessels carrying dozens of sea-to-sea missiles were destroyed in the Mina al-Bayda area and the port of Latakia," the military reported.

The IDF noted that the operation was conducted to stop the fleet's assets "from falling into the hands of hostile elements."

Israeli incursion into Syria reaches 25 km southwest of Damascus, security sources say​

An Israeli military incursion into southern Syria has reached about 25 kilometers (16 miles) southwest of the capital, Damascus, two regional security sources and one Syrian security source said on Tuesday.

The Syrian security source said Israeli troops reached Qatana, which is 10 kilometers into Syrian territory east of a demilitarized zone separating Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria.

 

[Mehdipersian]

The equipment of the Syrian Navy after Israel attacks

Damascus air base after Israel attacks

 

[mulj]

Israel is now occupying Mt. Hermon and unverified reports state that their tanks are just miles away from the capital Damascus.

The reasons for occupying Mt. Hermon from an Israeli perspective are worth reading.

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He is full of shit, peaks in modern warfare are almost irellevant just standard jew land grab justification.