With rebels edging ever-closer to Syria's capital, Assad is making a last-ditch attempt to remain in power, including indirect diplomatic overtures to the US and Trump. One offer Assad made to the US via the United Arab Emirates is for Syria to cut all involvement with Iran-backed militant groups, such as Hezbollah, if Western powers wield influence to stem the fighting. Another initiative saw Assad dispatch a senior Christian leader to meet Hungarian President Viktor Orban to relay what he sees as an existential threat to Syria’s Christian minority if Islamist rebels prevail, according to other people familiar with the plan. The intention was that Orban, a Trump ally, would convey this danger to the incoming US president, they said...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...bid-to-survive And Asma certainly not helping him now she is busy packing her jewels, she only reacts on Assad biaaching which nation he still owns by "Dog get the **** out of this shyte hole pass the crack pipe lemme get another hit… Dog!!"
Assad forces are withdrawing from Homs.
The Russian fleet in Tartus received orders to abandon the naval port. "They are leaving." This is how fast red lines are getting buried, no matter if they are in the Syrian Desert or Ukraine's Donbas. When it is over, then it is over, and Russians leave.
Intensive flights of the international coalition aircraft in the skies of the villages and towns of the eastern countryside of Deir ez-zor. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have offered a General Amnesty to all Members of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Pro-Assad Militias as they advance into the Deir ez-Zor Governorate of Eastern Syria.