[update] Assad flees Syria, rebels take Damascus
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
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The thing about horrible dictators is at least they brought some sort of law and order. Once they're gone chaos ensues and people flee. Look at what happened in Iraq .
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08-12-2024, 12:44
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
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The thing about horrible dictators is at least they brought some sort of law and order. Once they're gone chaos ensues and people flee. Look at what happened in Iraq .
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There seems to be a lot of happy people in Syria,lets hope it settles down and becomes a better place,meanwhile round up them migrants it's hometime.
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08-12-2024, 13:00
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
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There seems to be a lot of happy people in Syria,lets hope it settles down and becomes a better place,meanwhile round up them migrants it's hometime.
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How long before the new regime flies the rainbow flag?
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08-12-2024, 13:23
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
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How long before the new regime flies the rainbow flag?
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why would they?
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08-12-2024, 13:26
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
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why would they?
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They wouldn’t and they won’t. It’s a rhetorical question.
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08-12-2024, 15:00
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
Its a ridiculous question, stay on topic.
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08-12-2024, 15:26
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
It’s entirely on topic. The very first post outs them as religious fundamentalists.
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Back in Syria, however, the rebels are not exactly ‘our people’ - the whiff of Al Quaeda is strong.
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If anything we will see a new influx of Syrian refugees and the old ones won’t go home either.
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08-12-2024, 18:56
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
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There seems to be a lot of happy people in Syria,lets hope it settles down and becomes a better place,meanwhile round up them migrants it's hometime.
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Once they've had a taste of Cleethorpes's chips , no way are they leaving. And who can blame them ? 
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08-12-2024, 20:05
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
TASS reporting that Assad and family have been granted asylum in Russia. He’d better find himself a job as a dentist quick smart, otherwise he’ll get mobilised and packed off to the Donbas within a month.
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08-12-2024, 20:14
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...0896ed0c237844
- as the above relates to a rolling update page it’s the one at 19.58 tonight.
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The US Central Command said its forces conducted dozens of airstrikes on Islamic State targets in central Syria on Sunday
In a statement, the Centcom said its strikes were aimed to ensure that the Islamic State does not take advantage of the current situation in Syria.
“Battle damage assessments are underway, and there are no indications of civilian casualties,” reads a statement by Centcom posted on X.
“There should be no doubt – we will not allow Isis to reconstitute and take advantage of the current situation in Syria,” said Gen Michael Erik Kurilla.
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Irony overload from the US here.
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09-12-2024, 09:20
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
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TASS reporting that Assad and family have been granted asylum in Russia. He’d better find himself a job as a dentist quick smart, otherwise he’ll get mobilised and packed off to the Donbas within a month.
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asylum on humanitarian grounds
Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Moscow and been granted asylum "out of humanitarian considerations", Russian news agencies are quoting a Kremlin source as saying.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx89reeevgo
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09-12-2024, 11:41
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
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asylum on humanitarian grounds
Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Moscow and been granted asylum "out of humanitarian considerations", Russian news agencies are quoting a Kremlin source as saying.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx89reeevgo |
Plenty of asylum seekers in Russia have been conned into signing up for the so-called ‘special military operation’.
You watch, he’ll be dodging drones in the Donbas before he knows it.
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09-12-2024, 11:44
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Re: Beginning of the end for Assad of Syria?
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Plenty of asylum seekers in Russia have been conned into signing up for the so-called ‘special military operation’.
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He might become a diplomatic pawn,Russia has military bases in syria that it wants to keep.,so he could be handed over
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09-12-2024, 12:13
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Re: [update] Assad flees Syria, rebels take Damascus
That would be genuinely hilarious and it has to have crossed their minds. Despite what official media was reporting at the weekend I doubt very much whether the air and naval bases’ security have been guaranteed by any rebel faction. They have no reason to do so, seeing as the Russians have been barrel-bombing their wives and children alongside the Syrian army for years. For those reasons however, the Russians will have been wondering whether any kind of deal to retain their bases there can stick. Those now running Syria - or bits of it - really, really don’t like Russians much at all.
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09-12-2024, 15:29
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Re: [update] Assad flees Syria, rebels take Damascus
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Israel has taken more Syrian territory, justifying the incursion as a temporary move to protect its citizens but drawing a furious reaction in the region.
Defence minister Israel Katz on Monday said the country’s military was continuing to seize “high ground” inside Syria after the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on Sunday by a group led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
The movement of tanks and infantry, which extended into and beyond a previously demilitarised buffer zone, was condemned “in the strongest possible terms” by Egypt, which said it amounted to the “occupation of Syrian land” and a “severe breach” of a 1974 armistice deal.
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https://www.ft.com/content/5690c07a-...a-b3e98b241f1c
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That's what some countries seem to be thinking too
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Germany, Austria and Greece all said on Monday they were suspending their processing of asylum claims from Syrians.
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https://www.ft.com/content/5690c07a-...a-b3e98b241f1c
Per report of 3.34pm today
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Hundreds of Syrian refugees have gathered at two border crossings in southern Turkey by Monday, eagerly anticipating their return after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Many arrived at the Cilvegözü and Öncüpınar border gates at daybreak, draped in blankets and coats.
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Scrolling news link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...e-updates-blog
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