>>1367159
I'm sure Syria will be better off with decades of upcoming turmoil and terrorist rule.
Thanks for making this happen, biden

>>1367160
It was all thanks to Putin not Biden. Russia pulling out of Syria to focus on Ukraine is what allowed it to happen

>>1367160
>>1367161
Honestly, despite how you feel about this happening, this is probably biden's greatest single achievement of his presidency

>>1367159
paste the article text newfag

>>1367159
>Ass-sad chased out of Syria
>Ivans chased out of Syria: Putin humiliated
Russian bots in /news/ humiliated. Good
>>1367162
>Cruse missiles fired at Syria: 2017
There's your opinions destroyed, Putin bot.

>>1367175
Meds, please you really need to take your meds

>>1367180
>Russian bot impotently seething, as is Putin
I'm not the one needing meds

>>1367181
Why would a bot need medication, crazy person?
Anyways, good job. Democrats overthrew yet another government by arming terrorists

I wonder how much credit is to israel since they toppled hezbollah

>>1367187
Cool headcanon

>why would a crazy subhuman such as >>1367187 support a subhuman government supported by the subhuman Putin?
>Trump destroys Putin lovers' opinions by firing cruise missiles at another government - Syria's - in 2017
ftfy

>>1367169
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrians poured into streets echoing with celebratory gunfire on Sunday after a stunning rebel advance reached the capital, ending the Assad family’s 50 years of iron rule but raising questions about the future of the country and the wider region.

Joyful crowds gathered in central squares in Damascus, waving the Syrian revolutionary flag in scenes that recalled the early days of the Arab Spring uprising, before a brutal crackdown and the rise of an insurgency plunged the country into a nearly 14-year civil war.

Others gleefully ransacked the presidential palace and residence after President Bashar Assad and other top officials vanished, their whereabouts unknown. Russia, a close ally, said Assad left the country after negotiations with rebel groups and had given instructions to transfer power peacefully.

Abu Mohammed al-Golani, a former al-Qaida commander who cut ties with the group years ago and says he embraces pluralism and religious tolerance, leads the biggest rebel faction and is poised to chart the country’s future.

In his first public appearance since fighters entered the Damascus suburbs Saturday, al-Golani visited the capital’s sprawling Umayyad Mosque and said Assad’s fall was “a victory to the Islamic nation.” Calling himself by his given name, Ahmad al-Sharaa, and not his nom de guerre, he told hundreds of people that Assad had made Syria “a farm for Iran’s greed.”

>>1367159
>Israel assaults Damascus at the exact same time as the "rebels"
Yeah not hard to guess who was behind this

The rebels face the daunting task of healing bitter divisions in a country ravaged by war and still split among different armed factions. Turkey-backed opposition fighters are battling U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in the north, and the Islamic State group is still active in some remote areas.

Syrian state television broadcast a video statement early Sunday by a group of rebels saying that Assad had been overthrown and all prisoners had been released. They called on people to preserve the institutions of “the free Syrian state.” The rebels later announced a curfew in Damascus from 4 p.m. to 5 a.m.

The rebels said they freed people held at the notorious Saydnaya prison, where rights groups say thousands were tortured and killed. A video circulating online purported to show rebels breaking open cell doors and freeing dozens of female prisoners, many of whom appeared shocked and confused. At least one small child could be seen among them.

Rebel commander Anas Salkhadi, who appeared on state TV later in the day, sought to reassure Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities, saying: “Syria is for everyone, no exceptions. Syria is for Druze, Sunnis, Alawites, and all sects.”

“We will not deal with people the way the Assad family did,” he added.
Celebrations in the capital

Residents of Damascus gathered to pray at mosques and to celebrate in squares, chanting, “God is great.” People also chanted anti-Assad slogans and honked car horns. Teenage boys picked up weapons apparently discarded by security forces and fired into the air.

Revelers filled central Umayyad Square, where the Defense Ministry is located. Men fired celebratory gunshots and some waved the three-starred Syrian flag that predates the Assad government and was adopted by the revolutionaries.

Soldiers and police left their posts and fled, and looters broke into the Defense Ministry. Videos showed families wandering into the presidential palace, with some emerging carrying stacks of plates and other household items.

“Victory to Syria. Syria remains and Assad to hell, to the dustbin of history,” said a man exploring the palace.

Syria’s al-Watan newspaper, which was historically pro-government, wrote: “We are facing a new page for Syria. We thank God for not shedding more blood. We believe and trust that Syria will be for all Syrians.”

The newspaper added that media workers should not be blamed for publishing past government statements, saying: “We only carried out the instructions and published the news they sent us.”

A statement from the Alawite sect — to which Assad belongs and which has formed the core of his base — called on young Syrians to be “calm, rational and prudent and not to be dragged into what tears apart the unity of our country.”

The rebels mainly come from the Sunni Muslim majority in Syria, which also has sizable Druze, Christian and Kurdish communities. In Qamishli in the northeast, a Kurdish man slapped a statue of the late leader Hafez Assad with his shoe.
Assad’s whereabouts are unknown

Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said in a video statement that the government was ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and turn its functions over to a transitional government. A video shared on Syrian opposition media showed a group of armed men escorting him out of his office and to the Four Seasons hotel on Sunday.

Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told The Associated Press that Assad took a flight Sunday from Damascus.

A senior diplomat from the United Arab Emirates, which had sought to rehabilitate Assad’s image and has welcomed high-profile exiles in recent years, declined to comment on his whereabouts when asked by reporters at a conference in Bahrain.

Anwar Gargash said Assad’s destination at this point is a “footnote in history,” comparing it to the long exile of German Kaiser Wilhelm II after World War I.

Assad has been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war, including a 2013 chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of the capital.
Calls for an orderly transition

The rebel advances since Nov. 27 were the largest in recent years, and saw the cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs fall in a matter of days as the Syrian army melted away. Russia, Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, which provided crucial support to Assad throughout the uprising, abandoned him in the final days as they reeled from other conflicts.

The end of Assad’s rule deals a major blow to Iran and its allies, already weakened by over a year of conflict with Israel. Iran, which had strongly backed Assad throughout the civil war, said Syrians should decide their future “without destructive, coercive, foreign intervention.”

The Iranian Embassy in Damascus was ransacked after apparently having been abandoned.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile said Israeli troops had temporarily seized a buffer zone in the Golan Heights established in 1974, saying the move was taken to protect Israeli residents after Syrian troops abandoned their positions. Israel captured the Golan in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it. The international community, except for the United States, views it as occupied.

The rebels are led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS, which has its origins in al-Qaida and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and the United Nations.

Its head, al-Golani, has sought to recast the group as a moderate and tolerant force. HTS set up a “salvation government” in 2017 to administer a large region in northwestern Syria under its control.

>>1367161
>its not our fault we suddenly pulled out it's everyone else's fault for not covering up our asses.
Guess who syria deems target number one.

“Golani has made history and sparked hope among millions of Syrians,” said Dareen Khalifa, a senior adviser with the International Crisis Group and an expert on Syrian groups. “But he and the rebels now face a formidable challenge ahead. One can only hope they rise to the occasion.”

The U.N.’s special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, called Saturday for urgent talks in Geneva to ensure an “orderly political transition.”

The Gulf nation of Qatar, a key regional mediator, hosted an emergency meeting of foreign ministers and top officials from eight countries with interests in Syria late Saturday. The participants included Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Turkey.

Majed al-Ansari, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, said they agreed on the need “to engage all parties on the ground,” including the HTS, and that the main concern is “stability and safe transition.”

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>>1367201
Syrians are behind it.
>>1367206
That Syrian government doesn't exist anymore.

Syria is now #1 breeding ground for anti- zionist freedom fighter recruitment aka antisemitic terrorism recruitment

>>1367285
antisemitic Islamic terrorists is an oxymoron

It's weird how the "Assad did nothing wrong" people have switched to "This is Obama's/Biden's fault" now that Assad has left the country.

>>1367315
>Assad did nothing wrong
>Ass-sas has been ousted, has fucked up big time, thus did more than everything wrong
The '...Did Nothing Wrong' meme is now destroyed

>>1367160
assad bombed his own people with chemical weapons

>>1367160
>I'm sure Syria will be better off with decades of upcoming turmoil and terrorist rule.
They'd been under dictatorial rule for decades with many people denied citizenship, let alone basic rights, torture, murder and disappearances the norm, and Assad presided over more than a decade of war.

You can't argue muh turmoil after that shit.

>>1367162
the infrastructure bill and chips act are pretty solid.
shame the ribbon cutting on new factories and big projects will be under trump, which he and his sycophants will no doubt quite happily take credit for.
managing a soft landing out of covid with inflation at half of the rest of the planet and the nly country to bounce back to surpass pre-covid economic levels was impressive, though everyone voted against democrats because of that for some reason

>>1367159

I wonder if there was a negotiation behind closed doors between Iran, Turkey, and Russia to let Assad fall.

>>1367399
All reporting is everyone was caught with their pants down. Iran was prepping for responding to Israel, Lebanon was in the shit, Russia was stuck in Ukraine, and Turkey only ever cared about killing Kurds.

>kebabs to kick out assguy
>kebabs are the evil type
> ̶p̶e̶t̶r̶o̶l̶ people suffer
>OH NOES WE NEED TO EXPORT SOME DEMOCRACY (c) TM
actually was the *** and ****** helping them but whatever

>>1367401
>every russian soldier putin sent to die in syria amounted to nothing in the end
feels amazing

>>1367181
pwned

>>1367414

The only thing the Russians care about are the local Russian bases. They'll likely reach an understanding with Turkey, the only real winner in this whole thing, and Qatar. Assad has increasingly end up irritating the Russians due his intransigence and incompetence of his troops. Israel is not a winner either, radicals will likely seize power which it is worse, but at least Iran has lost its proxy. The biggest losers will be the Kurds and likely the Alawites.

HTS is a designated as a terrorist organization and an Al Qaeda off-shot.

>>1367462
>Assad has increasingly end up irritating the Russians due his intransigence and incompetence of his troops.
Didn't stop them from giving him asylum lol.

>>1367159
Does this mean all the Syrian refugees in Europe can go back now?

>>1367472
lmao no. They have even less to go back to now if anything since the whole country is going to be restructured.

>>1367473
Well if the fighting truly does settle down enough to be considered ‘peaceful’ for middle eastern standards I don’t see why not. The pretense for giving these people asylum was that they could be targeted by the Assad regime and die, not that they are poor and deserve a better life in Europe. Now that the regime is over they should be sent back, regardless if all that’s left for them there is a ruin. Start rebuilding.

>>1367159
>syria falls
>Israel initiates lebensraum
They can't keep getting away with it bros

>>1367160

Libya says hi.

>>1367161

Thanks to Israel's plan of turning the Muslim world upside down, taking the heat off Israel.

>>1367478
being targeted by the Assad regime doesn't mean the new one is any friendlier. Besides at this point they're no longer citizens of ANY regime considering everything Syria was is currently falling apart. You can't send someone back to a country they no longer have citizenship in, or hell even one that could potentially no longer exist depending on if the rebels start splitting up Syria up or infighting.

>>1367479
The semantics over citizenship is meaningless in this case. That’s were they were born. That’s where they came from. There’s no reason for them to stay in Europe now if the war is over. Plenty of them are celebrating this on social media, so you’d think they’d be happy to go back eventually—and I’d be reasonable and give them ample time to do it.

>>1367487
(Whoops, messed up my reply)
This >>1367488 was meant for >>1367487

>>1367488
The reason for them to stay is the same as why they were accepted; if they go home they risk being killed. Before because Assad was targeting them, now because they have nothing to go back too and the new regime could still possibly kill them.

Asylum seekers generally stay in the countries they seek asylum in for the rest of their lives, and if they leave it's typically not to go back to where they came from even if it calmed down. They don't have a life to go back to. The main benefit is this will hopefully mean a drop in people who actually have to seek asylum.

>>1367495
Well it remains to be seen if that will be the case, we will just have to wait and see. But it doesn’t matter if asylum seekers have historically settled in the countries that took them as you say. There’s no rule that says a country has to keep them forever, and we are not bound by the past. You know what else asylum seekers generally do when they decide to stay another country? They integrate with the culture. But the problem here is that these people overwhelmingly do not. They do not mesh well with European culture and values and you can see it in the violence they have brought, and the fact that they’re celebrating literal Islamic terrorists taking over their country. So I don’t care if it will be too hard for them where they’re from, they can go back as soon as possible.

>>1367509
>There’s no rule that says a country has to keep them forever, and we are not bound by the past.
A path to citizenship is pretty conclusive anon. And integration is a pretty subjective thing.

Also, to be fair Assad was so fucking bad the islamists are still an upgrade. The celebration is more because "fuck that shithead" than anything else.

>>1367512
A path to citizenship is not ‘pretty conclusive’, it’s going to vary from country to country. What does citizenships even means to you? “Oh I’ve lived here long enough, so that makes me a citizen now.” No it doesn’t. No, these refugees are guests in another country, and if they overstay their welcome and the real citizens of those places tire of them and want them out, then it’s their right to kick them out.

>>1367159
Who would allow such a revolution? Oh that's right! The Biden Administration! Guess Biden's too busy pardoning his crackhead son to stop Syria from being destroyed.

>>1367531
Peak ivanposting hours

>>1367531
>Guess Biden's too busy pardoning his crackhead son to stop Syria from being destroyed.
More likely he is responsible for arming the terrorists himself

>>1367462

In contrast to Iran, whose embassy was ransacked in Damascus, Moscow’s embassy has remained untouched. Moscow has also softened their rhetoric. I guess a deal to preserve the bases will be reached in exchange of money, barter, oil and gas, or mercenaries.

>>1367538
More likely for whom?

>>1367548
Donald J. Trump

>>1367495
>if they go home they risk being killed

The overwhelming majority of "asylum seekers" are simply economic migrants looking to sponge off the generous welfare systems in Western countries.

>>1367574
source: Stephen Miller

>>1367575
>source: reality

The migrants are overwhelmingly young males who can most easily make the migration to the West, whereupon once they receive "asylum", they can bring over their wives, children, parents, etc.

If these countries were SO dangerous as claimed, how are their wives, children, parents, etc. not being slaughtered by the evil regimes they're supposedly fleeing in terror?

>>1367579
It's like you get everything you know about migrants from podcasts and chain emails.

>>1367175
Don't be a coward and move to the Ukrainian trenches right now.

can someone just tell me straight who the good guys in this war is?

>>1367639
The rebels, unironically.

>>1367603

I graciously accept your surrender.

>>1367639
No idea but if /news says the rebels then it was likely Assad.

>>1367639
Assad was shacked up with Russians and Hezbolah to keep control of the region.
Assad is the reason why there is an immigration crisis in Europe.
The rebels aren't much better, but at least they removed Assad.

>>1367711
Do you often make up surrenders when none were given?

>>1367739
Yes it's all I can do.

>>1367639
Wars don't have "good guys".

>>1367764
decade long civil wars started by the dictatorial regime do have "good guys" though.

>>1367712
>authoritarian son of original authoritarian ruler might possibly be the good guy
How did you get this confused?

>>1367765

It will be replaced by another one. Syria is the sort of place that it is ruled with an iron fist or it cant be ruled at all. It is a post colonial construct after all.