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Steve Rosenberg: Fall of Assad is a blow to Russia's prestige HTS leader not only player in Syria's fast-changing future As Damascus echoes with celebratory gunfire at Assad's downfall, most ...
Western and Arab states, as well as Israel, would like to see Iran’s influence in Syria curtailed, but none wish for a radical Islamist regime to replace Assad. For Russia, Syria’s fall could ...
Western and Arab nations fear that the HTS-led rebel coalition may seek to replace Assad's regime with a hardline Islamist government, or one less able or inclined to prevent the resurgence of ...
Rebels toppled the Assad regime in Syria after a brutal 13-year civil war. Once again, the region's power dynamics have been dramatically reshaped. And there are risks and opportunities for the US ...
The Assad family, c. 1993.Front: Anisa Makhlouf and Hafez al-Assad.Rear, left to right: Maher, Bashar, Bassel, Majd, and Bushra al-Assad. The Assad family had ruled Syria since 1971, when Hafez al-Assad seized power and became the president of Syria under the Syrian Ba'ath Party.
Celebration in Richardson, Texas, USA after the fall of the Assad regime. In the United States, the White House said President Joe Biden had a meeting with members of the national security to address the situation. [13] Biden later said the Assad regime's end was a "fundamental act of justice" but warned of possible instablity in the region. [12]
HTS was the key faction behind the fall of Damascus and the fleeing of Assad, and now controls the capital city. But the Islamist militant group is far from a U.S. ally – its leader, Abu ...
Bashar Assad. The Western-educated ophthalmologist initially raised hopes that he would be unlike his strongman father, Hafez, when he took power in 2000, including freeing political prisoners and allowing for a more open discourse. But when protests of his rule erupted in March 2011, Assad turned to brutal tactics to crush dissent.