How Bashar El-Assad’s fate was sealed

The fate of Bashar El-Assad, who fled Syria on December 8 to join Moscow, and of his regime, which ended up being overthrown after ten days by a dazzling rebel offensive, “was sealed on [samedi] December 7 in Doha”, in Qatar, writes the Syrian opposition site Al-Jumhuriya.

And this, during meetings between representatives of Iran, Russia and Turkey, involved in the so-called “Astana” process – capital of Kazakhstan – since 2017 for a political settlement in Syria, and “Arab partners” on the sidelines of the Doha Forum, a conference for international political dialogue.

Before the rebel offensive launched on November 27, Moscow knew it was going to take place and that it was going to achieve its objectives because of the “popular support” from which she benefited and the state of the Syrian regime’s troops, writes the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat. Faced with this, he advised the Syrian president to accept a “political initiative which would open the door to dialogue with the opposition”. I just don’t.

Moscow and Tehran abandon Assad

When the Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTC) and other Turkish-backed factions launched Operation Deterrence of Aggression, Moscow contacted Tehran and Ankara to try to find a gateway to exit. But the offensive is moving quickly.

Iran, which enacted the “weakness” of the Syrian army, believes in “need not to trigger a confrontation which would lead