The Syrian President Bashar al Assad has been given
political asylum by Russia. It's believed that the former Syrian President and
his family are now in Moscow. I wonder how much of the countries money and
resources they've took away with them.
The country appears to be under the control of the Sunni Islamist militant faction called Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), but this is only one of a number of insurgent factions who are fighting for power and control in Syria. Will the downfall of Bashar al Assad create a power vacuum in Syria as it did follow the downfall of Saddam Hussain in Iraq? It also led to a bloodbath between Sunni and Shia Muslims. HTS leader, Abu Mohammed al Jolani, described the fall of Assad as a "victory to the Islamic nation." I'm not sure what the Islamic nation is or if such a thing exists.
In August 2013, a Conservative government motion calling for British military action in Syria to support the 'moderate' insurgent rebels seeking to overthrow Bashar al Assad, was defeated in the House of Commons. The Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, was disappointed with the vote but said: "It's clear to me that the British parliament...does not want to see British military action." I think that many British MPs were reluctant for Britain to take military action in Syria, because they felt wisely, that they didn't know who they were really backing, or what Britain was really getting dragged into. They must have also asked themselves who or what was going to replace the regime and dictatorship of Bashar al Assad whose family have been running Syria since 1970, with the support of the Alawite sect.
One of those supposed moderate insurgent Islamic groups that were seeking to overthrow Bashir al Assad and which David Cameron was keen to supply with British arms, later morphed into ISIS. Most of the victims of ISIS weren't westerners, but Muslims. Time will tell whether Syria returns to some kind of stability or descends into chaos and civil war.
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