Syria: how did Bashar al-Assad’s downfall happen so quickly? • FRANCE 24 English

Syrian rebels seized the capital Damascus unopposed after a lightning advance that sent President Bashar al-Assad fleeing to Russia after a 13-year civil war and six decades of his family’s autocratic rule. Details with FRANCE 24 international affairs editor Douglas Herbert.
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26 comments
  1. Assad did such an horrendous atrocities on its own peoples but where is ICC and its chief Karim khan ? Why dont ICC issues an arrest warrants for assad for his crimes against humanity? And where is south africa? Why is South Africa not dragging assad to ICC for his crimes which are all well documented and recorded with witnesses to account for?

  2. These analysts and journalists did nothing when Assad was in power. Now they telling Syrians what to do in their high horse.. Hypocrite

  3. Syrian Army was based on conscription, and conscripts were ordinary soldiers who didn't have any reason to risk their lives to fight for an unpopular dictator. This time Putin could't support Assad's regime with any extra help because Russia's main forces have been fighting against Ukraine since February 2022.

  4. The reason why afghans and Syrians were able to overthrow their governments is because the population was on their side, they were both welcomed into major cities

  5. Everyone saying they retook the country because the people were on their side… Bro you act like the people weren't on their side for the majority of the last 13 years and made more gains in the last 2 weeks than the last 8 years combined. Just admit that you don't know why things happen the way they did it's perfectly fine to admit it.

  6. It has been well said: "At the beginning of every revolution men hope, for they think of all that mankind may gain in a new world; in its next phase they fear, for they think of what mankind may lose."
    This was the case with the French🇫🇷 Revolution.

  7. Christmas decorations and trees already torn down in Aleppo over a week ago, the thin end of the wedge. Multiple assasinations of Syrian hierarchy…. this is going to get much worse, Turkey wants the Kurds gone and Turkey is running HTS

  8. Command centres of Syrian army got destroyed, communications got destroyed, Ukraine and Turkey and Israeli joint venture. The massed ranks of Syrian army folded without leadership, Russia and Iran now paper tigers could do nothing. Idlib should have been taken 6 years ago and this would not have happened. Now ISIS B team running the show

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