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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]
After less than two weeks of fighting across Syria’s northwest, rebel groups swiftly seized control of the capital. Their presence seemed to catch the regime off guard, forcing Assad to flee to ...
In 2011, Assad responded to the regional uprising that came to be known as the Arab Spring with an especially brutal crackdown on pro-democracy forces in Syria.
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 ...
[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 ...
Ba'athist Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR), [a] was the Syrian state between 1963 and 2024 under the one-party rule of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. From 1971 until 2024, it was ruled by the Assad family , and was therefore commonly referred to as the Assad regime .
“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 ...
The Assad regime's brutal half-century-long grip on Syria came to an end after opposition insurgents, led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), seized control of Damascus on Sunday following ...