{"id":7609,"date":"2024-12-07T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=7609"},"modified":"2024-12-07T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T17:30:24","slug":"how-in-the-world-did-syria-fall-so-fast-unless-all-the-major-players-agreed-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=7609","title":{"rendered":"<h2>How in the world did Syria fall so fast unless all the major players agreed on it.<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-258672\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-07-at-12.22.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"655\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"context-widget__container__3fXK0 article-body__context_widget__1xxEe\" data-testid=\"ContextWidget\">\n<div class=\"context-widget__tabcontainer__7d2ES\">\n<ul class=\"context-widget__tabs__18YJD\" role=\"tablist\">\n<li class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__small_body__2vQyf context-widget__tab__1XBL- context-widget__selected__B55Vo\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"tab\" data-testid=\"Body\" aria-selected=\"true\">Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"context-widget__content__1X4Oq\">\n<ul class=\"summary__summary__31feP\" data-testid=\"Summary\">\n<li class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__small_body__2vQyf summary__point__NO-2F\" data-testid=\"Body\">Rebels enter suburbs of city of Homs, sources say<\/li>\n<li class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__small_body__2vQyf summary__point__NO-2F\" data-testid=\"Body\">Insurgents seize almost entire southwest in 24 hours<\/li>\n<li class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__small_body__2vQyf summary__point__NO-2F\" data-testid=\"Body\">Protesters topple Damascus statue to Assad&#8217;s father<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">AMMAN\/BEIRUT, Dec 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Syrian rebels battled government forces for control of the key city of Homs on Saturday and advanced towards the capital Damascus as front lines collapsed across the country, throwing President\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iron-fisted-assad-under-threat-syrian-rebels-draw-closer-2024-12-07\/\" data-testid=\"Link\">Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a024-year rule into the balance.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Since the rebels&#8217; sweep into Aleppo a week ago, government defences have crumbled at\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/foreign-armies-syria-how-they-came-be-there-2024-12-06\/\" data-testid=\"Link\">dizzying speed<\/a>\u00a0as insurgents seized a string of major cities and rose up in places where the rebellion had long seemed over.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body__element__2p5pI\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">The twin threats to strategically vital Homs and the capital Damascus now pose an existential threat to Assad&#8217;s decades of rule in Syria and the continued influence there of\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/what-is-irans-axis-resistance-2024-08-05\/\" data-testid=\"Link\">his main regional backer Iran<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">A Homs resident, and army and rebel sources said the insurgents had breached government defences from the north and east of the city. A rebel commander said they had taken control of an army camp and villages outside the city.<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/syrian-rebels-seize-fourth-city-close-homs-threat-assads-rule-2024-12-07\/\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/syrian-rebels-seize-fourth-city-close-homs-threat-assads-rule-2024-12-07\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}