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The fall of Assad triggered a high-stakes geopolitical scramble as regional powers vie for influence in a newly fragmented country. Countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, Turkey and Qatar are pursuing competing interests, with Egypt and the Gulf states seeking to prevent the rise of Islamist factions, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood ...
Instead, Assad, the second son of former Syrian ruler Hafez Assad, planned to be an ophthalmologist. He studied in Syria and then London before his career as an eye doctor was cut short by his ...
The fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad was the crescendo of a remarkably bad year for the Iranian regime. The Islamic Republic suffered major blows in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, diminishing the power ...
They can repress, oppress and suppress a will, but sooner or later their seemingly stable regimes will fall. Opinion - Look out, Putin — Assad’s fall shows autocrats aren’t as strong as we think
Simple facts like this explain why things collapsed so dramatically and quickly in Syria in recent days. Assad’s regime had not won anything and Syria’s people were reaching their breaking point.
Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, said the "fall of Assad's dictatorship ends decades of brutal oppression". [12] 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]
The Assad dynasty in Syria, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the Saudi royal family and others have maintained control through the most undemocratic means. These artificial borders are not just limited to ...
The fall of the Assad regime has become the latest of many second- and third-order effects of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. The fall of Syria is a significant loss for Tehran.