Syrian Rebellion (Assad falls and flees to Moscow)

[AGinAg (37)]

Escalation in Syria again and Russia are getting involved.

BBC News - Russian strikes hit Aleppo as rebels take control

Aleppo: Syria rebels 'control majority of the city', say observers

Russia launched air raids in parts of the city overnight for the first time since 2016, a monitoring group says.

www.bbc.com

 

[AGinAg (37)]

The Syrian rebels appear to have arrived at the capital.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Bashar Al-Assad appears to have fallen!

 

[Dark Carnival]

That was fast! I’m sure some people weren’t even aware it was happening.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

They've emptied the prisons, the army has given up, Al-Assad has fled, the PM is backing the rebels. It appears completely over. That happened in, what, a week? Quite astonishing.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Armchair detectives currently speculating that Assad DEAD

 

[AGinAg (37)]

The Arab Spring and the start of the civil war was 13 years ago. It's been a long time coming, but a surprise they fell so easily. I read the insurgent group were a reformed group sprouted off of Al- Qaida. So that's a concerning power vacuum.

 

[Dark Carnival]

The Arab Spring and the start of the civil war was 13 years ago. It's been a long time coming, but a surprise they fell so easily.

Russia’s too busy is in Ukraine.

 

[VoR]

Hard to feel any sadness about the monstrous Assad finally being deposed, but is there a risk of Syria now becoming another Afghanistan?

 

[Dark Carnival]

Hard to feel any sadness about the monstrous Assad finally being deposed, but is there a risk of Syria now becoming another Afghanistan?

Oh it’s going to be a mess either way

 

[Dark Carnival]

I’m also worried poor tiny Lebanon will just never make it out

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Armchair detectives currently speculating that Assad DEAD

Long term prisoners apparently didn't know his father was dead.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Good God!

 

[Kratz]

Long term prisoners apparently didn't know his father was dead.

Don’t they read the Zsa Zsa Gabor Memorial Cemetery?

 

[Finn]

Too busy in the Eurovision forum

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Who was backing this group then? I always presume there's an international interest at play, or this like Afghanistan in 2021 and purely a local thing?

 

[Dark Carnival]

Who was backing this group then? I always presume there's an international interest at play, or this like Afghanistan in 2021 and purely a local thing?

oh there’s absolutely international interest at play for all sides. Turkey is involved with some of the rebels in the north. Russia literally has a Mediterranean naval base in Tartous. And the US has a base in the south.

 

[Marina Salty]

Who was backing this group then? I always presume there's an international interest at play, or this like Afghanistan in 2021 and purely a local thing?

Those who have been creating a "buffer zone" in Syria?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Assad falls possibly DEAD makes it sound like he tripped coming down the stairs

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Assad falls possibly DEAD makes it sound like he tripped coming down the stairs

He did look quite MEEK and ELDERLY.

 

[Lucille]

At 59 do you fall down or have a fall?

 

[big ron]

What a mess

 

[jivafox]

 

[Lucille]

Why’s she so long?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Assad DEAD rumours now being reported by Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrian-president-bashar-al-assad-has-left-damascus-an-unknown-destination-say-2024-12-08/

 

[Lucille]

Assad DEAD rumours now being reported by Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrian-president-bashar-al-assad-has-left-damascus-an-unknown-destination-say-2024-12-08/

Sorry, why was she so long?

 

[VoR]

I thought he was in Russia when the uprising first kicked off? Quite unwise of him to go back, all things considered.

 

[octophone]

Tony Blair will be delighted.

 

[ButterTart]

Sorry, why was she so long?

Someone on Reddit said he has the body shape of a Mum in a Pixar film and that's all I can see now.

 

[GNL]

Someone on Reddit said he has the body shape of a Mum in a Pixar film and that's all I can see now.

I've never seen him and Linda Belcher in the same room I'll say that much.

 

[Madison]

This bitch doesn’t deserve exile in the UAE. If he has to live, he should suffer the winters in Moscow.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Hoping for Chisinau tbh.

 

[VoR]

The Russians are calling for a peaceful transfer of power (HA!) so it looks like they've given up on any hope of reinstalling him.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Why does/did he have such a WEIRD CHIN?

 

[dmlaw]

This bitch doesn’t deserve exile in the UAE. If he has to live, he should suffer the winters in Moscow.

If he goes to Moscow, he would be out of the neatest window the moment he got too whiny about being returned to power.

 

[Dark Carnival]

The Russians are calling for a peaceful transfer of power (HA!) so it looks like they've given up on any hope of reinstalling him.

I think that ship sailed long ago when they didn’t even try to save him to begin with.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Twinks age horribly non-shock

 

[Lucille]

The body wasn’t even tea when he was young!

 

[octophone]

If he goes to Moscow, he would be out of the neatest window the moment he got too whiny about being returned to power.

No way is Putin going to have someone that tall knocking around anyway. If he's not dead now, he soon will be.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I have just been reminded he was a trained eye doctor and his wife is British.

I wonder if there's an opening for him in the NHS.