This is Mohammed al-Bashir, the head of the #HTS-linked transitional government in #Damascus -- he says he'll head up a transitional period lasting until March 1, 2025.pic.twitter.com/fWlbOgUScx
— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) December 10, 2024
Fast moving developments in northern #Aleppo (btw #Manbij & #Kobani) & Deir ez Zour, as the #SDF's position in #Syria is becoming increasingly vulnerable.
— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) December 10, 2024
The US must make clear to #Turkey that #Kobani is a red line. If not, a U.S. withdrawal is on the cards.
Seeing very few fighters around Damascus today amid reports they were ordered to their barracks.
— Timour Azhari (@timourazhari) December 10, 2024
Damascus feeling like the normal extraordinary city it is.
Thousands of armed combatants were still parading through its streets yesterday. pic.twitter.com/J380ds1DF1
A rebel delegation visited the town in the mountains of Latakia province on Monday, meeting a large delegation of religious men, elders and other notables at its town hall for a discussion before signing the agreement, residents said.
— Timour Azhari (@timourazhari) December 9, 2024
Locals dismantled a statue of Hafez al-Assad before the rebels arrived, residents said.
— Timour Azhari (@timourazhari) December 9, 2024
⁰Some locals later descended on Hafez al-Assad's grand mausoleum in Qardaha and looted it, taking tables, chairs to air conditioning units.
Many Alawites were long among Syria’s poorest.
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