With the Syrian Assad regime falling apart within mere days, first consequences of the shocking advance of the rebel groups reached the Israeli border along the Golan Heights on Saturday, as the IDF took part in the fighting for the first time.
Rebel groups spearheaded by the Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Shams (HTS) entered the northern city of Homs on Saturday, while the entire southern part of Syria, including provincial capitals Quneitra, Suweida, Dara’a, as well as several southern suburbs of the capital Damascus, was taken over by rebels.