The Military Operations Department in Syria and de facto transitional government announces a general amnesty for all military personnel conscripted under compulsory service. "Their lives are safe and no one may assault them," they add. The loss of its military harbor, airfields in Syria, threatens Russia's influence over African autocrats it seeks to support as its African military supply route would be significantly diminished. Putin's Syria debacle undermines Russia's broader geopolitical goal as a reliable global superpower. The biggest loser is Iran, its route to Lebanon and Yemen is severely hindered.
Raghad al-Tatary, a pilot who refused to bomb the city of Hama during the uprising against Hafez al-Assad in the 1980s, was freed after 43 years; Tal al-Mallouhi, 19 when she was arrested in 2009 for a blog post criticizing state corruption, was found alive.
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Day 1020 of my 3-day war. It's going so well that NATO, an aggressive alliance that seeks to destroy Russia, has 1 of their members helping me safely leave Syria. I remain a master strategist.
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It's as we all feared. They just discovered a massive pile of bodies in the dungeons of Sednaya prison. Former regime troops seems to have started executing detainees in large numbers as rebels were closing in on Damascus. Between 2011 and 2024, more than 100,000 Syrians, including members of the opposition, were detained without due process in state prisons, of which Saydnaya was the most notorious. Human rights organization Amnesty International has described the prison as a ‘human slaughterhouse’. It is estimated that more than 30,000 prisoners died there between 2011 and 2018 as a result of torture, lack of care and starvation. There were also said to be special ‘salt chambers’ where the bodies of perished prisoners were stored for disposal.
The former prime minister of Syria's Assad regime has agreed to hand over power to his rebel counterpart, outgoing prime minister Mohammad Ghazi Al-Jalali told Al Arabiya TV, according to Reuters. The Syrian rebels shared a video of the leader of the main rebel group HTS, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, meeting with al-Jalali. The rebels said the meeting was to ‘coordinate the transfer of power in a way that guarantees service to our people in Syria’. The transitional government in Syria will be headed by Mohammed al-Bashir, an engineer who previously worked as an administrator in rebel-held territory. According to Syrian television, the rebels have now appointed him and his main task is to ‘prevent the country from sliding into chaos’. Al-Bashir, from Idlib, was previously a minister in the rebel-held north-western Syria. Earlier this year, he came to lead the government there, which was supported and funded by HTS. Al-Jolani remains the face of HTS as a military leader and is likely to play a major role in setting up a new government.