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 No.485932[View All]

Syrian rebels enter Aleppo three days into surprise offensive
Insurgents had recaptured territory around Syria’s second city with civilians including children killed in fighting

Islamist insurgents have entered Syria’s second city of Aleppo in a shock assault, eight years after forces loyal to Damascus seized control of the city.

Fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began a major offensive earlier this week from their base in the Idlib countryside, a slim strip of land in Syria’s north-west. It took only three days for the fighting to reach Aleppo, with insurgents capturing territory around the city’s outskirts for the first time in four years as Syrian government forces pummelled rebel-held areas.

Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency reported on Friday afternoon that the insurgents had entered Aleppo, while unverified images and video circulating online showed armoured vehicles and armed uniformed militants on its streets. The Associated Press said residents reported hearing missiles striking its outskirts.

The fighting over the last three days had killed 27 civilians, including eight children, David Carden, the UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, told Reuters.

The rebels have rapidly recaptured dozens of towns and villages in the Aleppo countryside, seizing a military base, weaponry and tanks from Syrian government forces, while some Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups based elsewhere in north-west Syria joined the fighting.

The UN said Syrian government forces based in Damascus carried out at least 125 airstrikes and shelled areas across Idlib and western Aleppo controlled by the rebels in response to the offensive, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 46 others, and displacing 14,000 people.

Syria has been promised extra Russian military aid to help the army thwart the assault, two Syrian military sources told Reuters on Saturday. Damascus expects new Russian military hardware to start arriving at Russia’s Hmeimim airbase near Syria’s coastal city of Latakia in the next 72 hours, the sources added.

HTS said on Friday that it had captured four more towns including Mansoura, five miles from the centre of Aleppo. Syria’s state news agency said four civilians were killed inside student accommodation in the city when it was struck by projectiles from insurgent forces.

“The regime’s lines of defence have crumbled, I think they were taken aback. No one anticipated how fast the rebels would reach towards the edge of Aleppo,” said Dareen Khalifa, of the nonprofit International Crisis Group.

She added that it remained unclear whether the rebel forces would be able to hold the swath of captured territory, or how Russian forces backing the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus may respond.

Turkey’s foreign ministry called for calm in the region around Idlib, demanding an end to the strikes on the area. “It is of utmost importance for Turkey that yet another and greater instability is avoided and civilians are not harmed,” it said.



A delicate balance of power in Syria has been increasingly tested over the past year, however, amid increasing regional fallout from Israel’s battle with the Iranian proxy group Hamas in Gaza.

Israel has dramatically escalated airstrikes against Iranian forces stationed on the ground in Syria, carrying out more than 116 strikes on Syrian territory, according to the UN, and killing more than 100 people, while recent fighting in Lebanon has forced 500,000 people to flee into neighbouring Syria.

The increasing Israeli strikes have put Iranian forces in Syria on the defensive, allowing rebels to exploit a moment where various proxy forces backing Assad are more engaged elsewhere.

Khalifa said Moscow remained focused primarily on the fighting in Ukraine. “The Russians are distracted in Ukraine. They are less invested politically if not military in Syria,” she said. “It’s difficult to tell what the result of this offensive is going to be. The rebels think the other side is vulnerable, and they have leverage.”

The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Friday that Moscow regarded the rebel attack as a violation of Syria’s sovereignty and wanted the authorities to act fast to regain control.

Turkey, which backs rebel groups along Syria’s northern border but has sought recently to normalise relations with Assad, is yet to publicly intervene in the latest round of fighting.

HTS said it would target Iranian forces fighting alongside Syrian government troops as part of the latest offensive. Iran’s Tasnim news agency said a commander from the Revolutionary Guards was killed in western Aleppo late this week.

The fighting and airstrikes appeared to paralyse much of the fragile network of services across rebel-held territory in Idlib, forcing the closure of health services and other infrastructure that sustain millions seeking shelter there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/syrian-rebels-launch-surprise-attack-on-aleppo
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 No.486186

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1866390793159688617
Israeli Channel 12 reports that the Israeli military has nearly completely destroyed the Syrian Air Force, including its fighter jets and helicopters.

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1866388857043775788
BREAKING: Reuters, citing security sources, reports that the Israeli occupation military has advanced approximately 25 kilometers southwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus.
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 No.486187

File: 1733821307969.jpeg ( Spoiler Image, 86.75 KB , 1280x759 , the-death-of-mazen-hamada….jpeg )

Hope the Assadist shills on .org get to see all the videos and photos from Assad's death camps, tonnes of human rights activists, teens etc found dead, including notable ones from the Hague.
>>486183
Turkish thugs already enslaving women and mass executing people, video of them going through the hospital and killing all the patients.
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 No.486190

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1866289242843828585
Footage of Israel destroying Syria's navy.
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 No.486191

https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1866423560379805956
For the first time, Israeli forces conducted airstrikes on the Kurdish-led autonomous region of northeastern Syria. The strikes hit military facilities in Qamishli, previously operated by the SAA, now under the de facto control of the Kurdish-led and US-backed SDF.
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 No.486196

https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1866359406113255695
Israel has practically declared war on Syria with no provocation or casus belli whatsoever, announced a 50-year-old international diplomatic agreement is void, is invading another country in these very moments, and literally no one is doing, or even saying, anything about it.
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 No.486198

Syria monitor says 54 fleeing soldiers killed

A Syria war monitor says ISIL-affiliated (ISIS) fighters killed 54 government soldiers who were fleeing in the central province of Homs as fighters pressed an offensive.

The fighters captured “personnel fleeing military service in the desert … during the collapse of the regime” of al-Assad and “executed 54” of them in the Sukhna area in the Homs desert, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Turkiye destroys YPG trucks carrying Syrian army weapons: Report

Turkiye’s intelligence agency has destroyed 12 trucks loaded with missiles and heavy weapons, two tanks and ammunition stores being transported by the Kurdish YPG militia in northeast Syria, Reuters news agency reports, citing an unnamed Turkish security source.

The source said that the military equipment had been left behind by the armed forces of Syria’s ousted President Bashar al-Assad when they abandoned the area of Qamishli in northeast Syria.

The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have been a leader in the coalition of groups that made up the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.

The group had been enjoying near-autonomy in northeast Syria, which has been under its control for years.

src: youknowwho
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 No.486201

File: 1733855375221.jpg ( 139.8 KB , 526x722 , dec 10 2024 Israel focusin….jpg )

Fans of Beirut will love watching the prequel to Beirut 2: Damascus!
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 No.486202

Free to do what we want, give us your land, and associate only with who we allow
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 No.486204

>>486201
Israel emptying it's arsenals of modern weapons to destroy Syria's old weapons. Not a good trade if you ask me.

I think they don't want a new Syrian state to form because they want to conquer at least parts of it. Whether that works out in their favor, i remain skeptical.

>>486202
statement from Tel Aviv:
<If this regime allows Iran to re-establish it self in Syria, or permits the transfer of Iranian weapons to Hezbollah
Not if
It's when
They can't seriously expect Iran won't take advantage of the power-vacuum.
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 No.486207

>>486019
>t-64 tank
>in the Middle East
lol wut
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 No.486210

>>486207
Why not ? I mean there is a lot of soviet weapons floating around. Or is there something specific to the T64 model that makes it unlikely for that region ?
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 No.486212

>>486204
>Israel emptying it's arsenals of modern weapons to destroy Syria's old weapons. Not a good trade if you ask me.
One of these countries has bottomless weapons, the other doesn't.
One of them had air defenses, the other has air defenses.

Lebanon still doesn't have air defenses. This is not actually a common thing over there now. There's this weird thing that keeps happening where countries near Israel turn into countries with no air defenses or military to speak of, and then get invaded and massacred or turned into loyal accomplices (who don't care if they're invaded or massacred). It's almost insulting to think this is something else after this has happened so many times.

>Not if

>It's when
>They can't seriously expect Iran won't take advantage of the power-vacuum.
Take advantage with who?
What liberty does a country with no air defenses right next to Israel, crawling with US military and Israeli agents at the time of its "revolution," have to defy Israeli threats? The moment they do anything, they'll be decimated, and they've already declared themselves enemies of Iranian allies like Hezbollah. Who is Iran supposed to deal with?

>>486207
At the time, some speculated that it was misidentified by the US military. I forget what tanks people thought were more likely… could have been a t-64 but idk.
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 No.486215

>>486212
>One of these countries has bottomless weapons
Nobody has "bottomless weapons"

>Lebanon still doesn't have air defenses. This is not actually a common thing over there now. There's this weird thing that keeps happening where countries near Israel turn into countries with no air defenses or military to speak of, and then get invaded and massacred

Yeah alright, you have a point here.
To some extent the Russians have been a provider of air-defenses though, at least for those forces that are capable of using these sophisticated systems. The Russians certainly can produce more of those than anybody can resupply jet-fighters.

There also is a new type of air-defences that's likely going to emerge:
A small Air-to-Air missile that gets lifted and launched from a relatively small drone, at low to medium altitude. While in the Air the drone also could give some radar tracking ability. That likely is something that could be deployed by countries like Lebanon. It would be nowhere near as good as the bigger systems, but a lot better than the shouldered fired rocket launchers and fighters like Hezbollah actually would stand a chance to down a few Jets with these.

>Take advantage with who?

>What liberty does a country with no air defenses right next to Israel, crawling with US military and Israeli agents at the time of its "revolution," have to defy Israeli threats? The moment they do anything, they'll be decimated, and they've already declared themselves enemies of Iranian allies like Hezbollah. Who is Iran supposed to deal with?
Syria most likely won't remain a unified country and it will turn into a kaleidoscope of factions. Every power in the region is going to exert influence by allying with these factions. And Iran likely will be doing that too. You can safely ignore the declarations.
Bombing the shit out of people isn't that effective at exerting influence, as a political tool it's too blunt, Israel will not rule over the region by air-power.
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 No.486217

https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1866562870130991416
I find that what is really happening at the Lebanon Syria border is entirely different to the media narrative of a mass return of jubilant Syrian refugees.
There are officially 775,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon (UNHCR). The numbers returning are negligible.
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 No.486221

>>486217
>I find that what is really happening at the Lebanon Syria border is entirely different to the media narrative of a mass return of jubilant Syrian refugees.
>The numbers returning are negligible.
I didn't watch any mainstream media, are they really pretending that Syrians would be returning home when that means running towards chaos ?
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 No.486227

Erdogan is already saying he regrets all the chaos in Syria.

Israel has now advanced beyond the Golan heights and is eyeing southern Syria's agricultural areas. Israeli forces are beginning to get stretched thin.

If Israel gets too greedy they might end up creating a second Hezbollah in Syria. Doublebollah
Turkey might get stuck with a protracted border war.

Iran is now debating it self about getting nukes. I guess the equation is that nukes are expensive, but if having them creates stability, those might pay off in extra economic activity that would shy away from instability.

If the neocons manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory on this one, i think that might warrant researching a new type of generator that's powered by irony.
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 No.486228

>>486221
Some are returning. But yes, western media is saying it, exaggerating it, and western politicians are now all in unison trying to declare that Syrians' refugee status is null-and-void.
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 No.486230

From KernowDamo on the western/media hypocrisy about HTS
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 No.486241

File: 1733943341330.jpg ( 218.54 KB , 1024x683 , dec 11 2024 Mausoleum of B….jpg )

Lebanon’s Hezbollah hopes new Syria rejects ‘Israeli occupation’

Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group on Tuesday expressed hope that neighbouring Syria’s new rulers would reject the “Israeli occupation” of their land, days after the fall of president Bashar al-Assad.

“We hope to see Syria stabilise … and take a firm stand against Israeli occupation, while preventing foreign interference in its affairs,” the Iran-backed group said in a statement.

Hezbollah fought in Syria’s war in support of al-Assad, who had played a key role in helping Iran to supply the Lebanese group with weapons.

But Hezbollah has recently been battered by an intense war with Israel, and much of the group’s leadership have been killed in Israeli attacks.

US embassy in Syria urges US citizens to leave country

Citing a “volatile and unpredictable” security situation throughout the country, the X account of the embassy, which suspended operations in 2012, urged US citizens to leave if they are able.

“The US government is unable to provide any routine or emergency consular services to US citizens in Syria”, its post read, urging those who plan to leave to contact the US embassy in the country they plan to enter.

The main option it gave to citizens was fleeing through the Turkish border, but added that the US embassy in Turkey must facilitate this transfer.

“If you are in Syria, be prepared to shelter in place should the situation deteriorate”, the post says.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/12/10/live-israel-bombards-syria-as-opposition-seeks-to-form-new-government

Kurdish-led forces say they’ve agreed a ceasefire with Turkiye-backed rebels

As we have been reporting, there has been intense fighting between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Turkish-backed rebels around the northern Syrian city of Manbij, with around 218 people killed in just three days.

Now, SDF commander Mazloum Abdi says the US-backed Kurdish group have reached a ceasefire agreement with the Turkey-backed rebels in Manbij.

He said early on Wednesday the ceasefire had been reached through US mediation “to ensure the safety and security of civilians”.

“The fighters of the Manbij Military Council, who have been resisting the attacks since November 27, will withdraw from the area as soon as possible,” Abdi added.

Iran’s Khamenei claims US-Israel plan behind fall of Syria’s al-Assad

In his first comments since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Tehran has “evidence” that “what happened in Syria was the product of a joint plan by the US and the Zionist regime”.

“Yes, a government neighbouring Syria played and is playing a clear role in this. We see this,” he told a gathering in Tehran, referring to Turkiye.

But Khamenei again emphasised that “the main conspirators” were the US and Israel.

Syrian Civil Defence says no chemical leakage after Israeli bombing

The Syrian Civil Defence has said there was no leakage of chemical substances in the al-Qutayfah area near Damascus, after an Israeli bombing had sparked fear of harmful substances having been released.

The civil defence said a specialised team headed to the location after receiving reports of a yellow cloud over the area, but found no traces of chemical vapours.

HTS-led opposition forces take over Manbij after SDF withdrawal

Syrian opposition forces led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group have taken full control of Manbij in northeastern Syria and have published the footage below, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency.

We reported earlier how the Kurdish-led and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) evacuated from the area after an agreement.

https://twitter.com/AJA_Syria/status/1866815311321923649

Mausoleum of Bashar al-Assad’s father set on fire in Syria’s Qardaha: Report

The tomb of Hafez al-Assad was torched in his hometown of Qardaha, according to a war monitor and footage taken by the AFP news agency.

The AFP video showed opposition fighters in fatigues and young men watching it burn.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor told AFP the fighters had set fire to the mausoleum.

It was located in the Latakia heartland of al-Assad’s Alawite community.

Russia says Israeli strikes in Syria violate 1974 pact

Israeli action in Syria violates a treaty between Israel and Syria that ended the 1974 war, known to Israelis as the Yom Kippur War and to Arabs as the October War, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing that Israel’s actions did not serve to stabilise the situation in Syria and called on it to show restraint.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that his country aims to impose a “sterile defence zone” in southern Syria as the Israeli military said a wave of its air strikes had destroyed most of Syria’s strategic weapons stockpile.

Israel’s military says it has carried out 480 attacks on Syria in the past 48 hours.

Opposition fighters clash with group loyal to al-Assad in Deraa

Syrian fighters have stormed the town of Umm Walad, in the eastern countryside of the Deraa province, to arrest the leader of an armed group known for its loyalty to the ousted al-Assad’s regime, according to social media footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency.

The fighters imposed a curfew in the town and clashed with the group led by Mohammed Ali al-Rifai, nicknamed Abu Ali al-Lahham, who fled the town.

Turkish forces and proxies bombard villages in northeast Syria: Monitor

Turkiye and its proxies stationed in Syria have bombarded several villages in Tel Tamr countryside and nearby villages in Hasakah in northeastern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The UK-based war monitor said displaced civilians from the targeted villages rushed out to safer areas.

On Sunday, it reported Turkish forces firing artillery shells on Kurdish-controlled positions in the northwestern part of Hasakah.

“The bombardment indiscriminately targeted civilian houses, which triggered a state of panic among residents, amid concerns about military escalation by Turkish forces following the toppling of al-Assad.”

Russia warns of ISIL emergence again in Syria: Report

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has warned that there was a real risk that ISIL (ISIS) fighters could rise again in Syria, the state RIA news agency reported.

ISIL is designated as a “terrorist group” by authorities in Russia who have banned it.

Israeli air strikes a ‘huge’ challenge for new administration
Resul Serdar Atas
Reporting from Damascus, Syria

Israel is carrying out the largest aerial operations in Syria in its army’s history. It is hitting the northern cities, the coastal cities of Tartous and Latakia, Homs, Hama and in and around the capital, Damascus.

I was inside a military airport, one of the largest ones in Damascus, which has been hit by Israel several times in the last couple of days.

Two helicopters – one cargo and another an attack helicopter – both Russian-made, were burned to the ground by the Israeli air force.

These air strikes are really a huge challenge for the new administration of Syria as they try to preserve the state apparatus, while also trying to provide security.

Iran rejects ‘rumour’ that $42m taken from its embassy in Syria

Iran’s embassy in Syria denies claims that money sent by Tehran to be spent in Syria and Lebanon has been stolen.

“There were no possessions or resources inside the Iranian embassy building in Syria at the time of its violation,” the embassy said, according to state-run IRNA.

“All had been predicted before evacuation, and the issue of the theft of $42m is a rumour that seditionists released for consumption within Iran.”

Iran’s Khamenei claims US-Israel plan behind fall of Syria’s al-Assad

In his first comments since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Tehran has “evidence” that “what happened in Syria was the product of a joint plan by the US and the Zionist regime”.

“Yes, a government neighbouring Syria played and is playing a clear role in this. We see this,” he told a gathering in Tehran, referring to Turkiye.

But Khamenei again emphasised that “the main conspirators” were the US and Israel.

Iran-backed ‘axis of resistance’ to encompass whole region: Khamenei

Iran’s Khamenei says the nature of the Iran-backed “axis of resistance” is that it will get more resilient and strong the more pressure it comes under.

“I tell you this, with God’s help, the expanse of the resistance will more than before encompass the whole region,” the supreme leader asserted to cheers by a crowd that also chanted “death to the US” and “death to Israel”.

Khamenei said “ignorant” analysts who are unaware of the true meaning of the axis of resistance believe that if the axis is weakened, “Islamic Iran” is also weakened.

“I tell you this, with God’s help, strong Iran is powerful and will become even more powerful.”

Iran’s Khamenei says occupied Syrian territory will be liberated

We have more lines from Khamenei’s speech:

Occupied Syrian territory will be liberated by brave Syrian youth. Do not doubt that this will happen, and the US will be ejected from the region by the ‘axis of resistance’.
The goal of Daesh [ISIL or ISIS] was to make Syria, Iraq and the region insecure, with the ultimate target of making the Islamic Republic of Iran insecure.
Were we present in Syria? Everybody knows that, yes, the martyrs of defenders of the shrine show that we were present.
When everybody worked with Saddam Hussein and against us [during Iraq’s invasion of Iran in the 1980s], Syria cut off the pipe taking Iraqi oil to the Mediterranean and Europe. The Islamic republic did not leave this service unreturned.
Senior Iranian commanders write to me to say they yearn to fight in Lebanon. Compare this with an army [in Syria] which cannot hold, and flees. This is why resistance is important.
Syria’s events have lessons for us all, including our officials. One of the lessons is negligence about the enemy.
Our intelligence agencies sent warning reports to Syrian authorities from months ago but were ignored.
The US and the Zionist regime closed Syria’s skies and its land routes so we could not send help.

Russia condemns Israel for attacks on ‘already destabilised Syria’

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russia wants to see Syria quickly “stabilised”, slamming Israel’s strikes on the country and the creation of a “buffer zone” along the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.

“The strikes, the actions in the Golan Heights and the buffer zone hardly contribute to the stabilisation of the situation in the already destabilised Syria,” Peskov said.

He also said Moscow was in contact with the new Syrian leadership over the fate of Russia’s military bases in the country.

“This is necessary since our [military] base and diplomatic mission are there,” Peskov added.

Iranian currency reaches record low after fall of al-Assad

The overthrow of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad has caused not only political but now also economic damage for his erstwhile ally Iran.

The Iranian currency, the rial, plunged further after the change of power in Syria and fell to a record low on Wednesday.

In the capital Tehran, the dollar exchange rate at currency exchanges rose to more than 740,000 rials, while the unofficial euro exchange rate rose to more than 770,000 rials.

The rial’s latest dollar exchange rate marks a significant decline since President Masoud Pezeshkian took office on July 30, when it was 584,000 rials.

In 2015, the nuclear deal initially set the rate at 32,000 rials to the dollar.

Currency brokers fear that the rate could even rise to 1 million rials if the conflict in the Middle East continues for a longer period.

Israeli strikes across Syria continue

A reminder that Israeli army has been carrying out its largest air offensive on Syria.

There have been nearly 500 strikes across Syria, including the capital Damascus, in just a few days.

Among targets hit were two naval facilities where 15 vessels were docked.

Israel says its attacks have destroyed 80 percent of Syria’s military capabilities.

In addition, Israeli troops are also moving deeper into the occupied Golan Heights.

src: youknowwho
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 No.486245

>>486230
So is the UK going to abolish that retarded "terror act" law in order to protect the Zionists ?
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 No.486246

>>486228
>western politicians are now all in unison trying to declare that Syrians' refugee status is null-and-void.
So the Syrians get deported in to hell, where they will have no choice but to become resistance fighters who fund them selves by being an Iranian proxy.
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 No.486247

>>486241
>Iranian currency reaches record low after fall of al-Assad
>The overthrow of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad has caused not only political but now also economic damage for his erstwhile ally Iran.
>The Iranian currency, the rial, plunged further after the change of power in Syria and fell to a record low on Wednesday.
>In the capital Tehran, the dollar exchange rate at currency exchanges rose to more than 740,000 rials, while the unofficial euro exchange rate rose to more than 770,000 rials.

That means Iran now has no choice but to go all in with BRICS because that'll be the only place where they can sell their stuff and get payed for it.
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 No.486253

UN experts say Israeli strikes on Syria against international law

Israel’s strikes on Syria following the fall of al-Assad violate international law, UN experts said, branding Israel’s attempts to “preemptively disarm” its foes as “lawless”.

Since al-Assad’s overthrow, Israel, which borders Syria, has sent troops into a buffer zone on the east of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, in a move the UN has said violates a 1974 armistice. Israel’s army said it had conducted hundreds of strikes against Syrian military assets in the past two days, claiming to target everything from chemical weapons stores to air defences to keep them out of rebel hands.

“There is absolutely no basis under international law to preventively or preemptively disarm a country you don’t like,” said Ben Saul, UN special rapporteur on the promotion of human rights while countering terrorism. “If that were the case, it would be a recipe for global chaos,” he told reporters in Geneva, pointing out that “lots of countries have adversaries they would like to see without weapons”.

“You can’t just follow your enemy wherever they are in the world, and bomb them in some third country, which has been Israel’s approach.”

Kurdish-led SDF leader warns ISIL threat reemerging

The leader of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, says a resurgent ISIL (ISIS) group is seeking to capitalise on the situation following the fall of al-Assad.

“[ISIL] is now stronger in the Syrian desert. Previously, they were in remote areas and hiding, but now they have greater freedom of movement since they face no issues with other groups and are not engaged in conflict with them,” the leader of the US-backed group, which was defeated by ISIL in 2019, told Sky News.

Abdi also warned that ISIL could seek to take advantage of the Kurdish-led forces’ conflict with the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army to attack SDF-run detention camps and release ISIL-affiliated prisoners.

“Generally, the effectiveness of our forces and those of the coalition against [ISIL] diminishes when we are focused on protecting civilians and our communities,” he said.

“Frankly, there is currently a significant threat to the security of these detention centres.”

src: youknowwho
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 No.486255

>>486253
>“There is absolutely no basis under international law to preventively or preemptively disarm a country you don’t like,”
>said Ben Saul, UN special rapporteur
This feels like the preschool teacher yelling at Jimmy to stop stabbing Cedric with a fork
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 No.486266

>>486255
Whenever people talk to Israel about international law, human rights, etc. it honestly feels to me like any time the humans tried to negotiate with the aliens in Mars Attacks.
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 No.486275

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>>486266
kek that is so true
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 No.486286

>>486275
You make this? 5 stars
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 No.486289

Ukraine aided Syrian rebels with drones: Report

The Syrian rebels who deposed al-Assad received drones and other support from Ukrainian operatives who sought to undermine Russia and its Syrian allies, The Washington Post reports.

Citing “knowledgeable” sources familiar with Ukrainian military activities abroad, The Post says that Ukrainian intelligence sent about 20 experienced drone operators and 150 first-person-view drones to the Idlib headquarters of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham four to five weeks ago.

The Post described these efforts as playing a “modest role” in the overthrow of al-Assad, but said they form “part of a broader Ukrainian effort to strike covertly at Russian operations in the Middle East, Africa and inside Russia itself”.

Iranian official blames al-Assad for ignoring warnings

Mohammad Bagher Ghaliba, Iran’s parliament speaker, has acknowledged that the fall of Syria’s al-Assad has “disrupted the momentum” of the Iran-backed “axis of resistance”.

Iran’s IRNA state news agency quoted him as saying that al-Assad’s government ignored Iranian warnings before the rebel advances that ousted him.

If those warnings had been heeded, he said, “today the Syrian nation would not be on the verge of internal chaos, sectarian settlements, and damage to national assets”.

Nevertheless, Ghaliba pledged that the “resistance axis”, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group, will emerge “alive and stronger than before” and that Syria will instil “national dignity”.

“We are confident that … the Syrian people will come to their senses upon seeing the deplorable situation that has befallen their country, and the patriotic Syrian youth will be able to find a path to restoring their national dignity,” he concluded.

Syria’s new government to suspend constitution, parliament for three months

Obaida Arnaout, Syria’s new government spokesman, says “a judicial and human rights committee will be established to examine the constitution and then introduce amendments.”

Arnaout told the AFP news agency that a meeting would be held on Tuesday “between Salvation Government ministers and the former ministers” of al-Assad’s administration to carry out the transfer of power.

“This transitional period will last three months,” he added. “Our priority is to preserve and protect institutions.”

Speaking at the state television headquarters, now seized by the new rebel authorities, Arnaout pledged they would institute “the rule of law”.

src: youknowwho
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 No.486321

>>486286
you get credit for pointing out the similarities with the Mars Attacks movie.

Also I found that pretending Netanyahu says "Ack Ack, Ack!" during his speeches has surprising mental health benefits.
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 No.486465

https://x.com/HowardMortman/status/1870064513762075115
"We have been briefing you regularly there are approximately 900 US troops deployed to Syria. In light of situation in Syria and significant interest we recently learned those numbers were higher…I learned today in fact there are approximately 2,000 US troops in Syria"
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 No.486595

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Damn this site is so fucking slow and dead
Syrian turkish jihadist sanduyghurs had their own stunning coat of arms, yet still picked the shitty template version to reskin
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 No.486597

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>>486595
Actual subhumans defending this choice of inferior aesthetic
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 No.486610

>>486595
this is about the bird picture ? One has the wingtips pointed down and one has them pointing up.

Can you explain why coat of arms do ?
There are sooo many of these and they're hard to tell apart.
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 No.486626

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>>486610
The one with the wings up is original. The rest is a shitty lazily reskinned template, because the turkish jihadists got their brains fried from huffing sand.
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 No.486632

>>486595
>>486597
Wait, but if you preferred the 'wings up' version and that's the previous on, why does the guy in the picture have a CIA patch? That seems like it would be more of a patch HTS guys would have.

>>486626
No idea how you or anyone finds the time to be racist about something this insignificant.
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 No.486637

According to Red,
The Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have regained control of eastern neighborhoods in Manbij, a strategic northern Syrian city. This comes after the SDF launched a counteroffensive against the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA).
https://twitter.com/redstreamnet/status/1873708894499057728
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 No.486644

Geopolitical Economy Report with Ben Norton - Secret CIA report on Syria reveals US plan to overthrow Assad government… in 1986!
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 No.486650

>>486637
>US-backed … Forces … launched a counteroffensive against the Turkish-backed … Army
So the Assad government was among other things also acting as a buffer that prevented new antagonisms between the US an Turkey.
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 No.486651

>>486650
From my POV this is basically US against US. Until Erdogan does something substantial, militarily, against Israel that matches the rhetoric, I'll see him as entirely on board with the US agenda.
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 No.486652

The new Syrian government is appointing Chechens, uyghurs, Egyptians, Jordanians, Turks, and Albanians to military positions.

"The sources said that out of a total of almost 50 military roles announced by the Defence Ministry on Sunday, at least six had gone to foreigners."

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syria-appoints-some-foreign-islamist-fighters-its-military-sources-say-2024-12-30/

According to Craig Murray, all 50 military appointments have gone to Sunnis.

https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1874073178701479968
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 No.486654

>>486651
I think, Israel has over-extended it self big time, and it's hollowing out its foundations to fuel the expansion. Erdogan could be waiting for an opportunity to exploit that. Low budget imperialism
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 No.486659

>>486652
Even US-backed forces have to fulfill diversity quotas..
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 No.486662

>>486659
They don't call it DEISIS for nothing.
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 No.486663

>>486662
lol
>>486659
What does D and E stand for ?
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 No.486689

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 No.486898

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Since overthrowing the Syrian government has thrown Syria into chaos, the Syrian arsenal is now being sold off on the black market.

That means that Hezbollah is now able to buy weapons at a steep discount.
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 No.486979

>>486898
Initially surprised there was anything left tbh not that I should have been, obviously there'd still be, like, AKs and bullets like you attached at the very least and probably other stuff

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