The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a lightning rebel offensive.

  • dragontamer@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    People need to start talking about this in terms of (at minimum) Shia vs Sunni.

    The problem with that, is we have wars like Afghanistan (Taliban and ISIS-K are BOTH Sunni but still fight each other. No different than like, Lutherans getting pissed at Calvinists (both Protestant who hate Catholics but real world is more nuanced than the big divisions).