Syria

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Seems like Turkey is behind the rebels

 

Druze fighters opening a southern front

Syrian rebels seize control of Deir Ezzor

Rebels from Druze, an ethnoreligious minority group, have joined the uprising in southern Syria, CNN reports.
Two Druze groups, the Men of Dignity Movement and Mountain Brigade Gathering, joined the fight in as-Suwayda, a city near the Daraa province which has been the scene of rebel fighting on Friday.
Druze members have traditionally been against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and now their numbers will bolster opposition forces in their fight against it.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/thousands-flee-syrian-rebels-push-towards-homs-2024-12-06/

Syrian rebel forces advanced on the central city of Homs and Kurdish fighters seized effective control of the eastern desert on Friday, jolting President Bashar al-Assad's grip on power and triggering local revolts against his rule in the south.
If Islamist insurgents captured Homs in their lightning new offensive, it would cut off the capital Damascus from the coast, a longtime redoubt of Assad's minority Alawite sect and where his Russian allies have a naval base and air base.
In a parallel setback for Assad, a U.S.-backed alliance led by Syrian Kurdish fighters took Deir el-Zor, the government's main foothold in the vast desert in the east of the country, three Syrian sources told Reuters on Friday.
It was the third major city, after Aleppo and Hama in the northwest and centre, to fall out of Assad's control in a week.
Piling on the pressure, two Syrian army sources said the alliance known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had swept through the nearby Albu Kamal border crossing with Iraq.
In southern Deraa province, Syrian local fighters and former rebels overran one of the main army bases, known as Liwa 52, near Herak town as fighting spread to the southern border with Jordan, two rebel sources told Reuters on Friday.

 

Iran and Russia both being proven to be lightweights. Will Iraqi shiite militias be Assads only hope?

 

Sounds like Syrian army doesn't want to defend Assad


“Iran is starting to evacuate its forces and military personnel because we cannot fight as an advisory and support force if Syria’s army itself does not want to fight,” Mehdi Rahmati, a prominent Iranian analyst who advises officials on regional strategy, said in a telephone interview.
“The bottom line,” he added, “is that Iran has realized that it cannot manage the situation in Syria right now with any military operation and this option is off the table.”