I feel like I'm not hearing enough (or anything, really) about the #Syrian resistance and how they did the impossible in ousting Assad. Are there deep dives and profiles that I'm just not seeing?

Syrian researcher recounts horrors of Baath regime’s Hama massacre https://www.byteseu.com/788997/ #1982 #AlKaylaniyya #AnadoluAjansı #Baath #BaathRegime #Conflicts #Hama #HamaMassacre #Syria #Syrian

Who is real #PersonoftheYear?

Also: #Syria #Syrian #Rebels

Fuck dead media like #Time and #plutocracy ghouls like #Trump

Look to where the real world change is

Important we keep a close eye on the #Syrian situation, notably what happens to #Rojava & the #Kurds. The #Kurdish people of NE #Syria assembled a fairly egalitarian, multiethnic, #secular #democracy in their autonomous region, but Erdogan and Turkey will be gunning to dismantle it. #defendrojava

Another BBC documentary worth watching - this on the direct links between the multi-billion dollar #captagon trade and leading members of the #Syrian Armed Forces and Bashar al-#Assad's family
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g39jwk

Luckily, the #Kurdish Liberation Movement has decades of experience in their pockets, and they are more than happy to share it with us. And not just that, they also have 12 years of hands-on lessons leading a revolutionary society in north-east #Syria, with women liberation, social #ecology and confederation of local governments as their compass to build #libertarian socialism. Not without shortcomings, not without mistakes, but it is already more than many other libertarian revolutions ever achieved.
At the same time, the military successes of #Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) against the regime, as well as their authoritarian islamist governance in Idlib, opened an opportunity for their leader to influence the headlines of world news agencies. The information society of the 21st century forgets as fast as they scroll down their screen, so we may have to refresh your memory. Today, who remembers the liberation of Manbij from the claws of #ISIS ? Who talks about the #jihadists who kidnapped and trafficked yazidi women from Sengal all over the salafist world? And who remembers the women who declared SDF’s victory over #Raqqa, once the capital of the #caliphate ?
For those who forgot, we remind you that YPJ is still fighting, leading the front of the women’s revolution in #Rojava . A front that is once again under attack by proxy forces of the Turkish State, rallied under the ironic name of #Syrian National Army (SNA), a Turkish-controlled coalition of criminal gangs. Today they threaten the multicultural city of Manbij, a great example of pluralism and local governance integrated in the system of the #Democratic #Autonomous Administration of North East #Syria (DAANES).

https://libcom.org/article/syria-we-carry-new-world-our-hearts

It seems that, taking advantage of the prevailing #chaos , #Tsahal has not only pre-emptively occupied part of #Syrian #territory ,but also destroyed the Syrian #army 's entire #infrastructure and major #armaments . #Netanyahu will face no obstacles on the ( #air ) route to the #nuclear #bomb #construction sites in #Iran ...

Heavy #Israeli airstrikes targeted #Damascus yesterday evening, with one raid hitting at a branch of the #Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-8-2024

Heather Cox Richardson

..."President Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father to the #Syrian #presidency in July 2000, establishing a #totalitarian #dictatorship. In 2011, Assad cracked down on protesters who were part of the Arab Spring, sparking a civil war of a number of factions fighting Assad’s troops, which by 2015 relied on support from #Russia and #Iran.

That war has turned half of Syria’s prewar population”...

Apparently, while I was playing Minecraft, the #Syrian government has fallen?

Can Mastodon do me a favor?

Can y'all give #Syria and #Syrians a few days to rejoice after overthrowing a mass murdering sadistically torturing vile #Assad regime that has brutalized them for 54 years and after 13 years of a vicious #SyrianCivilWar?

This is a #Syrian celebration. Let them have it. Join them in it.

Then, *later*, you can all come in with your galaxy brain mindlessly miserable and cynical armchair geopolitical analysis.

Thanks

مبروك #سوريا

I am old enough to remember the #Iranian #revolution The victory against the gruesome Shah regime and the SAVAK. And the disappointment when the Islamists won, the repression against the rest of the Revolutionaries...
I fear for the #Syrian people, and most certainly for the #Kurdish population, who always seem to get the short of the stick. But I still hope for the best. After all, this is an opportunity.

#Syrian rebels capture #Damascus, saying President #Assad has fled
#BBCNews live page: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwy8xzxe0w7t

"Doctor Zaher Sahloul, a #Syrian-American physician who organised medical missions into #Syria, including hospitals in #Aleppo that were targeted by Syrian and #Russian airstrikes: 'I don’t cry often in my adult life but today I did. It has been fourteen long years of horror. This is our #Berlin Wall moment.'”

Mark your calendars:

December 8, 2024

After 54 years of barbaric abuse and cruelty, the #Assad dynasty is over

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/07/middleeast/syria-rebels-homs-damascus-assad-intl

The #SyrianRebels have taken #Damascus

And #Russia has decided to accept #Syrian refugees:

the Assad family (and possibly, nothing certain now, just rumors) #Bashar

Fuck you #Iran, fuck you Russia, for prolonging this monstrous regime

#Syrians I wish you well, this is a new era. It won't be easy

#Russia has been kicked out of #Syria and this is a joy to see. Lots of pathetic #Russian vermin aka soldiers and mercenaries who were plundering the assets of the #syrian people are being driven out like flees from a dog during treatment.

We need the same vermin out of #ukraine