10, 2025, the curtain will fall on the longest performance of ... Merchan seems at points to be writing the actual talking points for the talking heads. In his order, he states grandly that ...

The SDF commander, Mazloum Abdi, called the fall of Damascus a historic moment. But the tacit agreements the SDF had with the old regime are now gone. Its position, particularly in Raqqa, is tenuous.