{"id":134322,"date":"2024-12-07T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T04:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134322"},"modified":"2024-12-07T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T04:34:46","slug":"us-sees-increasing-possibility-that-syrias-assad-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134322","title":{"rendered":"US sees increasing possibility that Syria\u2019s Assad falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Biden administration believes the likelihood is increasing that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime collapses amid the lightning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2024\/12\/syria-rebels-advance-jordan-closes-border-assad-loses-ground-what-know\">rebel offensive underway<\/a>, a senior US official told Al-Monitor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Thousands of Syrians fled Homs on Friday as a rebel alliance led by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham advanced on the country\u2019s third-largest city. The capture of Homs would deal another blow to the Assad government, which lost control of the major cities of Aleppo and Hama in the past week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Biden administration has assessed that the government-held city of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2024\/12\/strikes-key-bridge-linking-syrias-homs-hama-war-monitor\">Homs<\/a> could collapse within days, before the rebels turn their sights on the capital of Damascus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A different US official said they have \u201cmoderate confidence\u201d Homs could fall as soon as Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The tumult in Syria comes nearly 14 years into the country\u2019s civil war. Fighting between the Russian- and Iranian-backed Syrian government and the rebel forces seeking to topple it has killed hundreds of thousands of people, spawned a new generation of extremist groups and caused the biggest displacement crisis since World War II.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Assad\u2019s forces had managed to claw back most of the country \u2014 all but a pocket of rebel resistance in northwest Syria and a Kurdish stronghold in the semiautonomous northeast. The war had settled into a stalemate prior to the rebel offensive that began late last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A State Department spokesperson told Al-Monitor that the administration is \u201cclosely monitoring\u201d the situation on the ground and \u201curges protection of civilians, including members of minority groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The spokesperson reiterated calls for a political settlement consistent with UN Security Council Resolution 2254, which in 2015 laid out a roadmap for a nationwide ceasefire, a new constitution and UN-supervised elections in Syria.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cConstant refusal by the Assad regime to engage in this process led directly to the events we are now witnessing,\u201d the spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '966621336700630');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    \/\/ Circlebrain\n    fbq('init', '1569525037283060');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2024\/12\/us-sees-increasing-possibility-syrias-assad-falls\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Biden administration believes the likelihood is increasing that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime collapses amid the lightning rebel offensive underway, a senior US official told Al-Monitor.\u00a0\u00a0 Thousands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134322\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}