BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a lightning rebel offensive.
The head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said President Bashar Assad had left the country for an undisclosed location, fleeing ahead of insurgents who said they had entered Damascus after a remarkably swift advance across the country.
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said the government was ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and hand over its functions to a transitional government.
Unconfirmed reports that Assad’s plane has been shot down:
This is develping, so take it with a grain of salt.
Holy shit, this just gets crazier and crazier
RIP BOZO
Pieces, for sure
To shreds you say?
Not sure if I would have preferred al-Assad having to live out the rest of his life in exile and constantly look over his own shoulder… Or seeing him imprisoned in Syria and/or publicly hanged for his crimes against humanity. But I guess with him having fled via plane, we’ll all have to accept the former.
…15ft/s drop at the mysterious end of his flight path in the mountains: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/yk-ata#3844aec1
That’s a rumor that’s going around. The flight path makes no sense for a VIP (for example, flying over the city center of occupied Homs), and while it was pretty clearly a crash of a military plane, that doesn’t at all imply it was al-Assad’s. We don’t know the destination, just that he boarded a plane, but I’m guessing we’ll see him turn up soon enough.
Yeah, we’ll have to see. Sucks for whoever was actually on this plane though.
That’s what you get for hanging out with a scum bag
Word. “You are the friends you keep”, and so forth.
Assad was a fucker who committed crimes against humanity and deserved to die. Unfortunately I don’t have high hopes for whatever group of islamist fascists ends up arresting control.
(Time to find out if this is one of those subs that removes any comment even slightly critical of islam as “islamophobia”…)
Yah know, you didn’t have to add that last caveat, most people already agreed with you
What do you mean? Why do you think I give a damn whether “most people” agree with what I’m saying or not?
(time to find out blah blah blah who gives a fuck) shows you do give a damn about whether “most people” agree with what you are saying or not.
Feel free to disagree all you want with my educated opinion that Mohammad was a child rapist and a violent warmonger with delusions of grandeur.
Most people are smart enough to know that there is a difference between disagreement and censors removing posts that they simply don’t like.
My best wishes to a free Rojava and may all Syrians get to experience a life of peace and freedom
2024 be like: I’m not done yet!!!
Can someone ELI5 what happened? I knew about the civil war but it had been effectively at a stalemate for a couple of years. How did the rebels suddenly surge like they did?
$$$ Assad must have run out of treasure
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Good luck. It was jihadists that deposed Assad, I’m sure they’ll just give up their newly acquired country. And I’m sure the CIA will stand idly by while that happens. Unfortunately Syria is fucked. Caliphate incoming.
That was damn fast, I didn’t think they’d hit Damascus this week.
Too soon to know much for sure, but this could be fucking wild if it’s really at face value.
The West will soon realise they backed the wrong horse.
