Assad regime’s fall a setback for Iran, Russia. Who’s Muhammad al-Jawlani, architect behind his ouster
New Delhi: Bashar al-Assad, the leader of Syria, reportedly fled Damascus early Sunday, following a rapid assault by the insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham over the last two weeks, upending the regional order in West Asia in a major blow for Iran and Russia.
“Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer. There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place. They lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine, where close to 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started, and could go on forever…” said Donald J. Trump, US President-elect, in a statement on social media platform Truth Social.
Tehran and Moscow have propped up the Assad regi...