Syria is on the snapping point as quickly advancing Islamic terrorist rebels from the north have taken over huge swaths of land from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
In just a bit over every week, the terrorist rebels have conquered Aleppo in northern Syria and have rapidly moved south, capturing Hama and at the moment are transferring by way of Homs as they transfer towards the nation’s capital metropolis of Damascus.
The state of affairs is so dire that Assad has evacuated his household to Russia and Iran has began to withdraw its army personnel from the nation.
“Russia doesn’t have a plan to save lots of Assad and doesn’t see one rising so long as the Syrian president’s military continues to desert its positions,” a supply informed The Telegraph.
Experts on the Russian army mentioned that the nation would wrestle to evacuate its principal airbase in Syria earlier than the terrorist rebels seize it. They consider that each one the personnel will probably be evacuated, however a lot of the {hardware}, together with a number of the army planes used to again the Syrian regime, could be left behind.
Fighting within the Syrian civil battle had remained largely quiet since 2020 when a ceasefire was struck, however current occasions cracked the forces that had stored the present strains frozen.
The two principal occasions which have modified the state of affairs within the nation have been Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists launching an unprecedented terrorist assault in Israel on October 7, 2023.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has siphoned away assist that it could ship to again Assad’s forces in its battle towards the insurgent terrorists — primarily Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a delegated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) that developed out of Al-Qaeda’s former department in Syria.
HTS’s chief, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, is a terrorist who has a $10 million bounty on his head from the U.S. authorities.
“Amid the thrill surrounding the potential downfall of the brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad, analysts and the media typically overlook that it’s occurring by the hands of jihadist teams,” mentioned Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst and Editor at Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Long War Journal.
“The prospect of a Syrian state dominated by Islamist factions, particularly in the event that they achieve entry to superior weaponry pilfered from regime arsenals, undoubtedly raises important considerations in Israel and the encircling area,” Truzman added.
Hamas’ bloodbath of 1,200 individuals in October 2023 sparked battle all through the Middle East between Israel and Iran and all of Iran’s terrorist proxy teams. Israel has decimated the most important and strongest of the terrorist teams, Lebanon-based Hezbollah, killing hundreds of its fighters, wiping out most of its massive arsenal of aerial munitions, and killing off its high leaders and practically all of its senior commanders. Prior to being severely broken by Israel’s superior army, Hezbollah was backing Assad in Syria and helped him preserve energy.
Israel was actively monitoring the state of affairs and is believed to have destroyed a Syrian chemical weapons cache to stop the weapons from falling into the arms of the terrorists.
“The IDF displays developments and is ready for all eventualities, offensive and defensive alike,” mentioned Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi. “The IDF is not going to tolerate threats close to the Lebanon-Syria border and can thwart any risk towards the State of Israel.”
