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According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, pro-Assad forces caused more than 90% of the civilian deaths. [21] The Assad government perpetrated numerous war crimes during the course of the Syrian civil war, [a] and Assad's army, the Syrian Arab Armed Forces, also carried out several attacks with chemical weapons. [27]
On November 30, the rebel groups conducted a lightning-fast offensive, killing dozens of government soldiers and taking control of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city.. It was the first time ...
“We are leaving Syria because we are Shiites,” said Ammar Shahbander, 32, a philosophy professor fleeing Aleppo for Syria’s neighbor, Lebanon.Around 74% of Syrians are Sunnis, like HTS ...
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 ...
[171] According to an April 2017 IHS Markit report, ISIS fought Syrian government forces more than any other opponent between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2017: "43 percent of all Islamic State fighting in Syria was directed against President Assad's forces, 17 against the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the remaining 40 percent ...
Syrian rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad and seized control of Damascus on Sunday, forcing him to flee and ending his family's decades of rule after more than 13 years of civil war in a ...
A stunning advance by Syrian rebels ended Bashar al-Assad's decades-long rule, with opposition forces taking the capital and forcing the president to flee on 8 December. The overthrow followed a ...
In the past, Russia "had intervened in Syria's 13-year civil war in an effort to keep [Assad] in power," per the BBC. This time, neither Russia nor Iran really came to Assad's aid, aside from that ...