Syria Liberated from Brutal Assad Regime

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The fall of Bashar Assad after 13 years of war in Syria brings to an end a decades-long dynasty

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for regional and international powers.

What happens now is anybody's guess but both Russia and Iran are the big losers with Hezbollah's influence diminished. Assad is of course is toast, he will now need to learn Russian.

Hezbollah's influence is minimized, Israel was keeping a close eye on them, even bombing their routes into Syria. Turkey will come out as the big winner since they were the main sponsors of the rebel group. But this will also embolden the Turkish Kurds who have also gained territory inside Syria, most of which they claimed as theirs anyway. Will the Turks and Kurds make peace? Will the rebels rebrand themselves and introduce democratic norms in Syria? What will Iran and Russia do now since they have lost respect and even more importantly, what happens to the Russian naval bases on Syria's coast?

The rebels were brilliant opportunists by attacking Assad's forces when Israel had decapitated Iran and Hezbollah while Ukraine had kept Russia on the ropes in their homeland. Most importantly, Assad's forces were not interested in dying for him anymore, so the rebels basically displaced them in short order.

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