When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. 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 ...

  3. Fall of the Assad regime - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Assad_regime

    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 ...

  4. From eye doctor to brutal dictator: The rise (and fall) of ...

    www.aol.com/eye-doctor-brutal-dictator-rise...

    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 ...

  5. Reactions to the fall of the Assad regime - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_fall_of...

    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]

  6. Background and causes of the Syrian revolution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_and_causes_of...

    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.

  7. Biden says fall of Assad regime in Syria is a 'historic ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/biden-says-fall-assad-regime...

    President Joe Biden addressed the nation Sunday after meeting with his national security team, calling the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's "abhorrent" regime a "historic opportunity for ...

  8. Arab Spring - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

    The fall of the Assad regime after 54 years of rule and 13 yeras of civil war was met with shock and surprise throughout Syria and the world. Syrian opposition fighters were surprised at how quickly the Syrian government collapsed in the wake of their offensive. [ 274 ]

  9. The rise and fall of Bashar and Asma Assad - AOL

    www.aol.com/rise-fall-bashar-asma-assad...

    Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma started as a couple that could have broken the country's tyrant regime, though the opposite happened. ... so people believed he was a geeky tech ...