Alone, Broke and Under Attack

 After not hearing much about Syria and their Civil War, the rebels attacked government forces on November 27 and made some huge advances.  Syria is a proxy of Iran but Iran has a lot of bad irons in the fire so are they going to be able to bail out Assad?  Russia has good relations with Syria but they have their own problems in Ukraine.  So who is going to bail out this strange Muslim with a lisp who doesn’t wear a turban?

Some day, maybe soon, Damascus will be destroyed and so we watch to see how that will happen.  In the meantime pray that these Muslim nations will continue to come to Jesus through the dreams and visions He is using to call them.

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The last time Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was in serious trouble was 10 years ago, at the height of the country’s civil war, when his forces lost control over parts of the largest city, Aleppo, and his opponents were closing in on the capital, Damascus.

Back then, Assad was rescued by his chief international backer, Russia, and longtime regional ally Iran, which along with its powerful Lebanese proxy Hezbollah helped Assad’s forces retake Aleppo, tipping the war firmly in his favor.

Assad has since become a vital part of the so-called Axis of Resistance, Iran’s network of regional proxies, which is openly committed to Israel’s destruction. With their decisive influence over the Syrian strongman, Tehran and Hezbollah have made Syria a throughway for arms transfers from Iran to Lebanon.

“The rebel assault underscores the precarious nature of regime control in Syria,” Yacoubian wrote.

“Its sudden eruption and the speed with which rebel groups managed to overtake Aleppo … expose the complex dynamics that reside just below the surface in Syria and can transform superficial calm into a major conflict.”

Aron Lund, a Syria expert with Century International, a New York-based think tank, and a researcher with the Swedish Defense Research Agency, said the developments in Syria are a geopolitical disaster for Russia and Iran.

“They too were surely surprised by what happened, and they have all sorts of resource constraints,” including Russia’s war in Ukraine and Hezbollah’s losses in Lebanon and Syria.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/alone-broke-and-under-attack-is-assads-rule-in-syria-at-risk-of-collapse/