A little late to the party. Assad is in Russia.

Posted for the quote from the new defacto Syrian leader. Would note that they've already forced Hezbollah to flee much of the country. Some mop up duty still to do.

HTS Leader: Hezbollah is next

Leader of HTS and presumptive interim leader of Syria, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani: "We are open to friendship with everyone in the region, including Israel. We have no enemies except the Assad regime, Hezbollah and Iran. What Israel did against… pic.twitter.com/ZGgOAG3GLs

— OSINT (Uri Kikaski) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇬🇪 (@UKikaski) December 8, 2024

Traffic jams are building along the Turkish-Syrian border as thousands of Syrian refugees hurry back home to Syria.

Nearly 4 million Syrian refugees live in Turkey.

2 million live in Europe. pic.twitter.com/LqvpkYsyjS

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 8, 2024

US and Chinese have controlled over 75% of the oil/gas fields in NE Syria the past few years. This is a big part of the reason for the Assad regime collapse.

Pipelines are both (a) vulnerable (even if sub-sea as Nordstream demonstrated) and (b) expensive to actually construct/build. It will take substantial stability for this to happen, though I certainly hope it does. The truth is it's probably going to be safer/cheaper/more reliable to pump this stuff into a ship and float it to various European terminals still. Stable energy flows to Europe are a good thing for all of us, imho.

AtticusMatlock said:

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Posted for the quote from the new defacto Syrian leader. Would note that they've already forced Hezbollah to flee much of the country. Some mop up duty still to do.

HTS Leader: Hezbollah is next

Leader of HTS and presumptive interim leader of Syria, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani: "We are open to friendship with everyone in the region, including Israel. We have no enemies except the Assad regime, Hezbollah and Iran. What Israel did against… pic.twitter.com/ZGgOAG3GLs

— OSINT (Uri Kikaski) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇬🇪 (@UKikaski) December 8, 2024

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Wait a minute. I thought these were the bad guys

They are the bad guys in Syria. A lot of what they said from 2011 up until 6 months ago is polar opposite of what they are saying now.

He's definitely had a lot of media coaching leading up to this point.

torrid said:

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He's definitely had a lot of media coaching leading up to this point.

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Yeah…don't bet against these guys hating us eventually.

Trump on Syria's rebels, 11+ years ago: pic.twitter.com/nmYHTKvtcl

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 8, 2024

The Prime Minister of Syria, Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali states that the Security Situation in the Capital of Damascus is continuing to improve, with efforts being made by most Government Ministers to support a quick and smooth Transitional Phase, away from the Assad Regime. pic.twitter.com/pzYpOUhIKB

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) December 9, 2024

The rebels are still trying to figure at out Sednaya prison and how to reach all the prisoners.

The place is huge, built like a labyrinth and the rebels lack most of the keys pic.twitter.com/SZpxt566lF

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 9, 2024

Reports coming out of this prison are awful.

The prison will be restocked with fresh heretics shortly.

Here's Russian state media admitting that Assad's job was to make sure no pipelines went through Syria into Turkey so that all that cheaper Saudi and Qatari LNG never hurt Russia's gas monopoly, the one Putin lost anyway by invading Ukraine. https://t.co/wg9RsG8950 pic.twitter.com/iMw5jqLetM

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) December 8, 2024

Our tax dollars are somehow funding both sides (again) https://t.co/DiMSpgpG35

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2024

Sigh…

In Lattakia, Sunni, Alawite and Christian religious leaders met together in Hourieh mosque to discuss the latest developments (fall of Assad's regime) in a move to strengthen the city's peaceful coexistence. pic.twitter.com/PF7aop6glt

— Israa | ﮼إسراء (@IsraHazel) December 8, 2024

You are welcome World!

Israel destroyed Syria's secret nuclear reactor in Deir ez-Zor in 2007, preventing the Assad regime from developing nuclear weapons.

Now Israel is destroying the regime's stockpiles of chemical weapons to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.

You're welcome, world. pic.twitter.com/TuKIhUhEBw

— Avi Mayer אבי מאיר (@AviMayer) December 9, 2024

The jihadi sects/groups probably have all of a couple dozen tank crews they can/will hire to operate modern weapons. Zero ability to operate a cohesive air defense system/employ patriots etc. It will be open season for the IDF on any installations they want to target.

But this is just going to breed more disunity among the jihadi factions, as the place disintegrates over the next 90 days even further, imho. Turkey, and Sunni Iraqi's seem to be the bigger winners so far regionally (with Kurds, as usual, and Christian's/non-radical muslims in Syria the biggest losers by far).

nortex97 said:

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Our tax dollars are somehow funding both sides (again) https://t.co/DiMSpgpG35

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2024

Sigh…

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We need to stop supporting any of them now and disengage altogether. Unfortunately that prior funding has already happened and for now I'm fine with them fighting each other.

AtticusMatlock said:

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Posted for the quote from the new defacto Syrian leader. Would note that they've already forced Hezbollah to flee much of the country. Some mop up duty still to do.

HTS Leader: Hezbollah is next

Leader of HTS and presumptive interim leader of Syria, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani: "We are open to friendship with everyone in the region, including Israel. We have no enemies except the Assad regime, Hezbollah and Iran. What Israel did against… pic.twitter.com/ZGgOAG3GLs

— OSINT (Uri Kikaski) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇬🇪 (@UKikaski) December 8, 2024

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that would be awesome but there is no citation at all to that tweet

it could literally be some guy in Germany typing that on his computer

I have yet to see Al Jolani actually say that in Arabic

Why do you think Israel is open to them?

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Something tells me a lot of Assad's stolen riches from the Syrian people are gonna end up funding a bit of the "strategic military operation" in exchange for asylum.

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It is a "special" military operation, not strategic. And bow has it been special. But Putin remains a master strategist.

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That last sentence is tongue-in-cheek I presume.

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Not really. I mixed up special and strategic. Either way, the forced euphemism is still hilarious to me.

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Why do you think Israel is open to them?

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because the freest Christians in the entire Middle East live in Israel.

maybe Israel doesn't let them all in- but Christians can move to southern syria near the Golan Heights

and mix with the Druze and be protected by the Israeli Army on the other side of the border.

The IDF's 210th "Bashan" Regional Division, which is tasked with the Golan Heights area, began on Sunday to deploy forces to the buffer zone inside Syrian territory, including atop the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, where troops had not stepped foot for over 50 years.

The 235-square-kilometer demilitarized buffer zone was established in the 1974 Agreement on Disengagement between Israel and Syria, which concluded the Yom Kippur War, and has been manned for decades by UN peacekeepers.

However, Israel said Sunday that with the fall of the Assad regime, it considered the agreement void until order is restored in Syria.

as far as I know Israel is not open to refugees from Syria unless they are Jewish. No exception for Christians.

Zobel said:

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as far as I know Israel is not open to refugees from Syria unless they are Jewish. No exception for Christians.

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Probably because there would be a bunch of people suddenly "identifying" as Christians.

You know...like Baptists on Sunday mornings.


















(Kidding)

Syrian refugees have started leaving Turkey for Syria.

Long lines formed today along the Turkish-Syrian border as Syrian families start returning home after 8-9 years of asylum in Turkey and Europe.

Nearly 4M Syrian live in Turkey and 2M in Europe 🇹🇷🇸🇾🇪🇺 pic.twitter.com/w8I7NNLa1e

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 9, 2024

BREAKINg:

Mayors of Turkish cities start offering free-of-cost one-way bus tickets back to Syria for Syrian refugees.

Nearly 4 million Syrian refugees live in Turkey.

🇹🇷🇸🇾 pic.twitter.com/XaDRNffEaS

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 9, 2024

Hopefully trend continues. A lot of the Syrians living in Europe may want to go home. Jolani talked about bringing the refugees back into Syria.

Europe needs to see it's not racist to help them get back home.

Lebanese Media is reporting that Israeli Tanks are currently advancing North along the Border between Syria and Lebanon, with them only roughly 10 Miles now from the Outskirts of the Syrian Capital of Damascus. pic.twitter.com/cGObLl2oG5

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) December 10, 2024

Trying to cut off southern Lebanon from Syria. My guess is they are in communication with the new Syrian leadership bit hopefully this doesn't set anything else off.

Well, Jolani has already said Iran is his enemy and wants to be friends with everyone else, supposedly.

Replace Palestinians with Syrian Christians. Win win!