President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on the seemingly imminent collapse of Syria on Saturday afternoon, saying that the U.S. should not get involved in the mess.
In just a little over a week, terrorist rebels have conquered Aleppo in northern Syria and have quickly moved south, capturing Hama, and are now moving through Homs toward the country’s capital city of Damascus.
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#Syria: the first groups of prisoners is leaving the cells of the Sednaya prison following the collapse of the #Assad regime. pic.twitter.com/JCW2kEksVa
— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) December 8, 2024
Syria’s Christians are happy about the collapse of Assad’s regime… pic.twitter.com/PPbCJBpXRa
— @amuse (@amuse) December 7, 2024
Following a lightning rebel advance in Syria, Jihadi rebels came across a photo of a scantily clad Syrian leader as a young man last week.
The image shows the dictator posing alongside three other people in swimsuits as they are perched on the side of a boat in the night.
A commander with the insurgents, Hassan Abdul-Ghani, posted on the Telegram messaging app that opposition forces have started carrying out the “final stage” of their offensive by encircling Damascus. He added that insurgents were headed from southern Syria toward Damascus.
Tens of thousands of people have fled Homs as the Syrian city looks set to become the third to be captured by Islamist-led rebels in another blow for President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The rebels, led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), yesterday stormed the nearby city of Hama after fierce fighting, and claimed to have seized its prison and released inmates.
Syria is clearly on the verge of collapse in terms of the economy and humanitarian situation.
The country’s southern province of al-Suwayda’, whose population primarily comes from the Druze minority, is currently witnessing protests on an unprecedented scale. While the province has previously seen protests motivated primarily by the country’s deteriorating economic and livelihood situation, these protests are now far more widespread in the province and larger in scale.
