Al-Arabiya: With the fall of the Assad regime, thousands of Iranian fighters fled and abandoned massive quantities of weapons that were then destroyed by Israel.
Following the collapse of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was their ally, Iranian forces withdrew mainly from Syria at the end of last December (2024), in a move that was a strong strategic blow to Tehran that was little talked about in the media.
With the collapse of the Assad regime, thousands of Iranian-backed militia fighters were still in the country, especially in eastern Syria, as well as in Damascus, Aleppo and elsewhere.
However, most of those Iranian forces, including IRGC officers, along with Afghan, Iraqi, Lebanese and Syrian fighters, quickly fled, towards the border town of Al-Qaim on the Iraqi side, according to what has now been revealed.