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The Assad family, c. 1993.Front: Anisa Makhlouf and Hafez al-Assad.Rear, left to right: Maher, Bashar, Bassel, Majd, and Bushra al-Assad. The Assad family had ruled Syria since 1971, when Hafez al-Assad seized power and became the president of Syria under the Syrian Ba'ath Party.
A fire burns in a room of the Tishrin residential palace of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad in Damascus' al-Muhajirin area. ... confirmed that Assad had fled to Moscow, and Jolani ...
Syria has had a week like no other, ... It was only last Sunday that President Bashar al-Assad fled the country as rebels entered Damascus. Syrians have since torn down statues of Assad and ripped ...
The Assad family had ruled Syria since 1971. PHOTO: An opposition fighter steps on a broken bust of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 8, 2024. (Hussein Malla/AP)
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.
For much of its 13 years, the horrors of Syria’s grinding civil war felt unending. Now, after just 11 days, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is gone, the dictator fleeing his country in ...
Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Hours before he escaped for Moscow, Assad assured a meeting of about 30 army and security chiefs at ...
Years later, large parts of Syria remained outside state control, cities were flattened, the death toll topped 350,000, and more than a quarter of the population had fled abroad. RED LINES