PrintWhile it was easy to follow, via social media, the military developments on the ground in real time as Assad's regime collapsed, historians will still need to write accounts of what was going on behind the reports about various localities falling to the insurgents. Performing research for these accounts will hopefully involve recovery of important internal documents and interviews with personnel who fought on both sides.
In this post, I present an in-depth interview conducted on 20 January with an individual who is originally from the Idlib Shi'a village of Kafariya (whose original inhabitants have still not returned) and served in the Iranian and Hezbollah-backed 'Local Defence Forces' network until the very end. Following the regime's final collapse, he fled from Syria to Lebanon. In this interview, he explains his own unit's role in the final fighting, his broader feelings about what happened and how he views the roles of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah in Syria.
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