Damascus and Syria
Damascus is falling as I write this, listening to the BBC World Service. They are interviewing various residents and correspondents, but it appears that jihadi type forces have successfully rallied in the past two weeks and taken the cities of Aleppo, Hama, and now, apparently, the erstwhile dictator of Syria, Assad, has departed the city. This follows 50 years of rule, backed by post-Soviet Russia and supported by Hezbollah, which implies Tehran as well.
The unknowns far outnumber the knowns for me, and I'm not aware of experts in the Mudcat domain, but this has definite repercussions to other threads we've been contributing to, especially Ukraine and Israeli involved.