Ok I’ll bite, what did I miss?
Numbah one rule of remaining a dictator: never leave your country for any reason. Send your family and retainers on a “vacation” with bearer bonds, bags of cocaine and uncut diamonds, but don’t leave.
Rebels took Aleppo, which is kind of a big deal
After few years of nothing particularly happening in Syria, SDF and SNA/HTS got a truce and advanced like 45km against SAA, taking Aleppo in three days and stopping only just before Hama. Now we also have HTS, who have Turkish support, encircling Kurdish area near Tal Rifat, and just today (news from last hour) they negotiated that Kurds from this area can go unimpeded to Rojava. This all while Assad sits in Moscow, and so does his family reportedly.
Also, Iran may have sent ragged bands of “militia” to “support” Syria’s ruling regime out of existence.
No one is an expert on the Syrian Civil War. I bet most of the time even the generals don’t know who are their allies and adversaries for the day.
here you have simplified chart
Hope this helps! It wasn’t like this last week, and it’s depreciated since yesterday
I nominate this guy for Syrian Civil War expert
