Syrian Civil War and The future of Syria after liberation

[The SC]

France: The European Union may lift sanctions on Syria quickly

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[The SC]

Confirming that the #Assad regime used it to protect itself.. The Syrian Minister of Defense pledges to return the army to its primary goal of protecting the country

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[EugeneP]

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It looks like the whole overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad and the civil war was all about creating Greater Israel. How can the new Syrian leaders live with this arrangement? Or may be they're Arab-speaking Zionists.

Maybe the unthinkable has happened: Syrian government does not consider Israel as an adversary and doesn't mind them cleaning up whatever dangerous ammunition and weapons Assad regime had amassed to wage his civil war?

As an aside, see this interesting news to see how the momentum is changing

Taboo no more: One in five Golan Druze now holds Israeli citizenship

Requests for naturalization hit an all-time high as communities warm to the idea. While future trends are unpredictable, developments in Syria will have a huge impact

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[ghazi52]

More than 50,000 Syrians return home since Assad fall: Turkey​

AFP
January 9, 2025

More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey to return home in the month since the fall of strongman Bashar al-Assad, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Thursday.

“Over the course of a month, 52,622 Syrians went home,” he told journalists at the Cilvegozu border crossing in the southern province of Hatay.

The number jumped by more than 20,000 since the previous update on December 27, when he gave a figure of 30,663.

Of the overall number, 41,437 had gone back with family members, while another 11,185 had returned alone, he said.

Turkey is home to nearly three million refugees who fled Syria after the civil war began in 2011. With anti-Syrian sentiment running high within Turkish society, Ankara is keen to see as many refugees as possible return to their homeland.

Turkey shares a 900-kilometre border with Syria and has six operational crossings, one of which was reopened in the last month to help facilitate the refugees’ return.

Last month, Yerlikaya said Turkey would open a “migration management” office in Aleppo, Syria’s second city.

Around 1.24 million — or some 42 per cent — of the Syrian refugees in Turkey hail from the Aleppo region, the interior ministry has said.

 

[Kyussis]

American official: Our recent talks with the new Syrian administration were constructive

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The Talks they held with their Puppet was "Constructive". You don't say!

 

[The SC]

The Talks they held with their Puppet was "Constructive". You don't say!

Their real puppets are seemingly the Kurds.. but who knows now!

 

[The SC]

Türkiye: More than 50,000 Syrians returned to their country within a month

https://t.co/LEjHEA36cR

 

[The SC]

Fierce battles being fought by the Syrian National Army in the vicinity of Tishreen Dam against SDF militias
Less than 1 km separates the National Army forces from the Tishreen Dam

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[Foinikas]

The Israeli President: If Turkish forces enter northern Syria, our forces will enter Damascus and we will not leave it. We reject Türkiye’s approach to our borders.

@BassamJaara

Well well well...

 

[The SC]

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[The SC]

Israeli concern about Turkey is real and significant, and its origin is that Tel Aviv’s ambitions to be the dominant power in the region are facing major challenges after the fall of the Assad regime and the emergence of the Turkish role in future Syria. Iran was previously a (good) enemy for Israel. It was a predictable enemy that could adhere to rules of engagement. Most importantly, it had no one to defend it internationally, and its bases in Syria could have been attacked at any time without consequences. As for Turkey, it is a strong and fundamental country in NATO, and it cannot be harassed. Indeed, countries in the West consider Turkey their mediator in Syria, until the features of the future there become clear. Thus, Türkiye could turn into a difficult geopolitical opponent from the same Western alliance, especially with the Trump administration, which is close to and admired by President Erdogan. And another matter related to the SDF, as Israel wants it as an allied enclave in the middle of the region, and therefore it considers Türkiye’s insistence on eliminating this enclave contradictory to its interests and plans. Perhaps Israel will at some point feel sad about Iran’s defeat in Syria and the end of Assad’s rule, as the latter provided it with quiet borders for fifty years, and Iran, which only wanted a sectarian sphere of influence in the region, always adhered to deterrence borders with Israel, had it not been for the Al-Aqsa flood, which took it by surprise. Everyone broke the rules, and ended the game of verbal conflict between Iran and Israel.

@liqaa_maki

 

[That_Guy]

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It looks like the whole overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad and the civil war was all about creating Greater Israel. How can the new Syrian leaders live with this arrangement? Or may be they're Arab-speaking Zionists.

And what are they supposed to fight Israel with? AK-47s? They're still trying to stabilize their country, and still have to deal with US-backed YPG.

 

[That_Guy]

The Talks they held with their Puppet was "Constructive". You don't say!

Puppet? They literally had a 10 million dollar bounty on his head for a decade.

Why are people on this forum so prone to conspiracy theories?

The US is talking to Jolani, because he's the one in charge in Syria, and is the only power in the country that can threaten US-backd YPG.

Why does everything have to be a conspiracy with you people?

 

[OakTree23]

Puppet? They literally had a 10 million dollar bounty on his head for a decade.

Why are people on this forum so prone to conspiracy theories?

The US is talking to Jolani, because he's the one in charge in Syria, and is the only power in the country that can threaten US-backd YPG.

Why does everything have to be a conspiracy with you people?

Exactly. I’m a Shia and I’m glad that Syria is going back to the Sunnis since they’re the majority. My stance will change if anything happens to Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque. If the Sunnis or anyone of their scum buddies touch a single brick, I hope the Shia forces that surround Syria on two sides invade it.

Hopefully the Sunni cum isis cum wahhabi clan doesn’t do anything foolish.

 

[PakFactor]

Exactly. I’m a Shia and I’m glad that Syria is going back to the Sunnis since they’re the majority. My stance will change if anything happens to Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque. If the Sunnis or anyone of their scum buddies touch a single brick, I hope the Shia forces that surround Syria on two sides invade it.

Hopefully the Sunni cum isis cum wahhabi clan doesn’t do anything foolish.

Don't get too attached to the Sunni-Shia crap. It's more of a political tool these days than anything.