WANA (Dec 14) – Syria’s soil fell under the occupation of terrorists and the Israeli apartheid regime within 11 days of the Syrian army’s surrender. Its military infrastructure was destroyed in just 3 days, proving once again that if you lay down your weapons, your enemy won’t do the same.

 

Syria became a lesson. The terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and over 30 other factions, isolated for years due to resistance efforts, reemerged on the regional scene. This resurgence, supported by Israel, Turkey, the United States, and possibly a few Arab states, occurred amid significant global and regional developments like the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, and the ceasefire in southern Lebanon.

 

These groups launched chaos in northern Syria on Wednesday, November 27, culminating on Sunday, December 8, with their occupation of Damascus after 11 days of unchecked advances against an absent army.

 

 

Following this stage, the Israeli regime joined the fray, devastating nearly all of Syria’s military infrastructure within the first 3-4 days. We will delve into this further, but the other side of the story lies with the Syrian government and military. Not only were they caught off guard, but they also offered no resistance. For various reasons—including internal betrayals, infiltration, and other issues—they had laid down their arms.

 

When a country is defenceless, the enemy advances effortlessly. In such situations, the enemy doesn’t need to be particularly strong. Defeating a defenceless country is hardly a challenge. The rapid fall of Damascus was not due to the strength of terrorists or the Israeli regime but rather the internal weaknesses of Syria and the absence of its army and people on the battlefield.