People wave a Syrian opposition flag after opposition fighters took control of the city of Hama, Syria, on 7 DecemberPhotograph: Mohammed Al Rifai/EPA
Posted on 12/08/2024 4:13:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Meeting on the margins of the Doha Forum, in Qatar, Turkey, Russia, and Iran urged the Syrian opposition to heed the call to end the fighting and to preserve Syria as an integrated and united country.
Amid reports that Russian diplomats are fleeing Damascus in the face of the lightning opposition advance...
Earlier this year, Assad had refused to speak to Turkey so long as Turkish forces remained in Syria. This refusal led the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to give the implicit green light to militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) last month to mount its stunningly successful attacks on Aleppo, and more recently into the city of Homs.
With Assad's 24-year grip on power faltering, the Syrian leader will have no option but to make concessions to Turkey on the Kurdish issue. Ankara is convinced that the Syrian YPG, fighting under the flag of the Syrian Defence Forces and backed by the US, is the same as the Turkish Kurdish group, the PKK...
But there is no guarantee that Turkey can control the Islamist HTS, or simply order the group to end an offensive that has proved far more effective than even the HTS expected...
Russia has one of its largest military bases outside the former Soviet Union in Hmeimim, and a prized naval port in Tartus, two assets it will be desperate to retain.
US administration officials, also wary of the speed with which Islamist groups were seizing land, had initially said they still expected Assad to remain part of the process.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
People wave a Syrian opposition flag after opposition fighters took control of the city of Hama, Syria, on 7 DecemberPhotograph: Mohammed Al Rifai/EPA
File under, 'careful what you wish for'.
From the "syria" keyword (only back to August) and news topic (only back to May), duplicates out, sorted:
I've been on-decking a possible topic, pertains to the next expansion of the ongoing, generations-long conflicts among and within predominantly muzzie regimes, as well as with their neighbors (Greece, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel).
Pop. GDP (billions) per capita growth yoy Armenia (2022) 2,880,874 $19.5 $4,933 12.2% Azerbaijan (2022) 10,295,304 $78.7 $5,507 4.0% Cyprus (2022) 1,331,370 $28.4 $20,237 5.63% Greece (2022) 10,412,480 $219 $20,466 7.6% Georgia (2022) 3,794,784 $24.6 $5,307 9.9% Israel (2022) 9,103,151 $522 $44,688 4.6% Lebanon (2020) 5,702,398 $31.7 $6,441 -20.1% Syria (no GDP avail.) 22,462,173 Turkey (2022) 87,058,473 $905.9 $13,715 5.1% (source worldometers.info)
Don’t get involved! Let Syria break up.
The nice thing about a muzzie civil war is, everyone wins.
Yay! Everyone gets a participation trophy!
I disagree with the headlines experts.
Syria needs to be at least 3 countries. The world needs more countries not fewer
Assad is getting Khaddafied as soon as they find him.
Syria has become a tar baby.
The world needs borders.
Countries without borders are countries in name only.
There could/should be a single independent Kurdistan, which would come out of Turkish, Iranian, Iraqi, and Syrian territory. Some small number of the 34.5 million Kurds live (possibly as refugees?) in Armenia; speaking of which, Nagorno-Karabakh should be part of Armenia. Alas, it won't get there without either a lot of bloodshed (and maybe not even then) or a sea change in attitudes among all concerned.
Smaller countries are more homogeneous and stable
Time for the USA to disengage from that sh*thole.
Anytime a regime changes hands I assume CIA was behind it with the next leader being no better or even far worse.
Interesting observation. Perhaps the "Palestinians" can claim some of Syria's land and leave Israel alone for once.
A very good idea. Give Gaza and WB back to Israel and give the Palis 1/4 of the eastern part of Syria.
Trump is right. Let it play out. Syria was an artifical nation state established by the French before WWI.
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