Syrian Scorecard – Key Factions and Their Backers

HTS leader not only player in Syria’s fast-changing future…

“They arrived here worried about the Islamists,” is how one source described the mood of Arab foreign ministers who flew into Doha on Saturday evening for urgent talks aimed at averting a collapse into chaos and bloodshed in Damascus.

With Assad’s Fall, Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’ Unravels. Tehran’s main regional allies are weakened or collapsing: Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has fled his country, Hezbollah is battered by conflict with Israel, and Hamas is still at war.