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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]
Syrian rebel forces launched a large-scale attack on Assad’s forces in western Aleppo, the first sign of what was to come from their offensive and marking the first flare-up between the two ...
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.
Syria was a prominent adversary of Ba'athist Iraq during the Cold War. Syria supported Iran in the Iran–Iraq War and joined the American-led coalition against Iraq during the Gulf War. [43] However by 1997, Syrian president Hafiz al-Assad began reestablishing relations with Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. [44]
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 back the veil from his murderous regime.
Celebrations in Chittagong after Assad's fall. Leaders and officials of the United States and Israel said they would not be involved with the situation in Syria. [11]Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, said he and the ministers of Turkey and Iran requested an "immediate end to hostile activities".
Assad clung to the idea of Syria as a bastion of secular Arab nationalism even as the conflict appeared ever more sectarian. Speaking to Foreign Affairs in 2015, he said Syria's army was "made up ...
In a stunning turn, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to have fallen after rebels advanced into the capital Damascus, catching government forces by surprise 10 days after a ...