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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 ...
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 ...
This article discusses the background and reasons that contributed to the outbreak of the Syrian revolution.What began as large-scale peaceful protests in March 2011 as part of the 2010–11 Arab Spring protests that reverberated across the Arab World, eventually escalated into a civil war following the brutal crackdown by Assad regime's security apparatus.
By Dec. 7, Assad’s regime was beginning to collapse, with Assad’s forces retreating from rebel-controlled areas across the country. By Dec. 8, the rebels had claimed control of Damascus, Syria ...
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 ...
Here's how the world's been reacting to Assad's fall. US: President Joe Biden "At long last, the Assad regime has fallen," Biden said on Sunday during a press briefing in the Roosevelt Room.
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.
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 ...