What exactly is happening in Syria? Is it as simple as "Al Qaeda backed groups ousted Assad".

According to this article the focus of the attack actually seems like US backed Kurds:

Having achieved a hard-won autonomy in the turmoil of the Syrian Civil War, the country’s Kurds now find themselves once again cornered between the Damascus regime, Islamist insurgents and Tur

There seems to be two seperate attacking forces - HTS (Al Qaeda offshoot) and Turkish backed groups:

While the forces of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – an offshoot of al Qaeda’s former Syria branch Jabhat al-Nusra – surged inwards from Idlib, another assault came pouring down from the northern borderlands with Turkey. These groups – backed by Ankara and calling themselves the Syrian National Army – began to seize territory northeast of Aleppo, including the town of Tal Rifaat and surrounding villages on December 1. 

But Tal Rifaat was not being held by Assad’s loyalists. Instead, the Syrian National Army has once again set its sights on territory held by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the iron core of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – a key Western ally in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group.

Now we all know the double talk of "western ally against IS" was nothing but the terrorist groups created by the late Noname using the pretext of figthing ISIS, but actually helping them.

The end result seems like Kurds getting their butts kicked out of Syria

The fighting has been fierce. Already, tens of thousands of Kurds have begun the long winter march east across the Euphrates River, where the Kurdish-led SDF still holds sway. In Aleppo, where SDF troops have held the Kurdish neighbourhoods of Ashrafiyeh and Sheikh Maqsoud throughout the civil war, the triumphant HTS negotiated the Kurdish troops' withdrawal from the city, weapons still in hand. Hours after Aleppo fell, footage emerged of convoys of Kurdish fighters filing out of the city under the watchful gaze of HTS troops.

So - Assad leaving Syria because his job is completed? Globalists being routed out of Syria? Turkey playing a key role in this?