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He did so as the rebels entered and seized Damascus, seemingly with little fightback from Assad’s government forces. Their lightning advance only began Nov. 27, quickly overrunning the cities of ...
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 ...
Alrefaai said that she suspects Assad is in a "state of shock" about his ousting and that it happened so quickly after a lightning-quick offensive by anti-Assad forces across the country.
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 ...
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]
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.
The fall of the House of Assad deals a major blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aspirations as a Middle East power broker – and raises new questions about the fragility of his own ...
Following the fall of the Assad regime, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli expressed apprehension at the opposition forces' political upheaval of the Syrian government, claiming that: "Most of Syria is now under the control of al-Qaeda and Daesh."