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The swift fall of Assad's regime was met with shock and surprise throughout the world, including the Syrian people. Syrian opposition fighters were themselves reportedly surprised at how quickly the Syrian government collapsed in the wake of their offensive. [7]
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 ...
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.
It took Assad’s regime to fall and Putin to accept it meekly for the West to appreciate that things weren’t all that rosy in Tsar Vladimir’s rotting kingdom.
Assad's reliance on Iran and Russia becomes his downfall As Assad’s regime almost collapsed in 2013 and then again in mid-2015, outside players came streaming in, some invited and some not.
Assad’s friends and enemies got it wrong — in all likelihood, for many reasons. But one stands out and is worth a closer look: Our regnant view of all authoritarian regimes as being ...
If the American analysis proves true, it would represent a spectacularly fast fall from power for the Syrian dictator after a 14-year war, one that had been relatively stagnant until just last week.