Category: Arab world

Yes.

The reason why he did lost against smaller groups inside his country was because those smaller groups did get support on mass level and Bashar al-Assad lost his people in the sunni, deist and atheist sections inside his country.

Also the PKK/Rojava did showed up very strong and did get support from Assyrians and other Christian minorities in the Rojava region in Syria. Before, Syria never did fight big against PKK. PKK was during the war more powerful then before the Syrian war.

Also the invasion of Islamic State suprised the Syrian power. Before the Islamic State invasion, there where not big signals of that radical groups could be in once grow and be a danger for the country. Nowerdays most radical groups did lost much people and power in wars.

The support of Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah where not enough for Beshar al-Assad’s Syria. For Iran there was also a big Yemeni civil war, in which they did support Houthis. Hezbollah isn’t a strong organisation. PKK for example is more strong then Hezbollah and Islamic State was during their invasion more dangerous then Hezbollah or PKK, but becuase jihadism the Islam State did send a lot of death messages. Most Islamic State jihadis did fight to die, because they do believe that they will go to heaven when they get killed during a war.

Syria did also not had the power in the Druze region of Syria during the civil war, which was needed for his power.

Other Arab countries didn’t support Syria enough, because their alliance was weak and Syria was in alliance with Iran, which is a enemy of Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Hezbollah was not enough motivated to fight against sunni muslims, because if they would do that on mass level, they would lose all power in Lebanon. Hezbollah members are very nationalist and wants mostly only fight for their own organisation direct.

Also United States of America did besiege soil in the desert for their military base. This did cost Beshar al-Assad some power.

The most support for Beshar al-Assad did came from Alawites, which are mainly only in Syria. Alawites is in size a too small religious organisation (main enemy of sunni muslims), while the majority of Syria is sunni muslim.

Alevism from Turkey is not the same as Alawism and they where never in a alliance. Alevis where also never in a alliance with Iran. Such rumours comes from the misunderstanding about that it are not the same religion (a lot of people thinks Alevism and Alawism are the same).

You have Alawis in Turkey, but it is not much and they where involved in the Syrian civil war on Syrian soil beside Beshar al-Assad, but they are just a couple hunderd thousands together.

There was also no support from North-Korea (most are thinking North-Korea would support because they are enemy of USA and Syrian opposition was supported by USA).

The support of Russia was weak, probably because Russia did had other plans, like Ukrainian plans.

There where no supports from organisations and countries for Bashar al-Assad from: freemationery, illuminati, satanism or United Kingdom/England. Rumours like that Bahsar al-Assad is member or spy of any of them did came from propaganda spreadings of the Turkish Grey Wolves, during their own “gladio” operation to weaken any gladio movements linked to the UK.