The fall of Syria
Posted by: John Phoenix
On 8 December it was announced that President Bashar Al Assad had resigned from the office he had held since the year 2000 and had left the country. A statement released later stated that he was in exile in the Russian Federation and this has been subsequently confirmed by President Putin. Assad’s resignation brought about the end of the Syrian Arab Republic and a terrible defeat for Arab nationalism, Ba’athism and the axis of resistance. The fall of Assad was followed by direct intervention by two regional allies of US imperialism – Turkey in the north and Israel in the south. The Israeli air force has carried out hundreds of bombing runs targeting every Syrian military installation, ammunition dump and intelligence centre they can find. The Syria...










