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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] The deadliest chemical attack was a sarin gas strike in Ghouta on 21 August 2013, which killed between 281 and 1,729 people. [28] [note 1]
On November 30, the rebel groups conducted a lightning-fast offensive, killing dozens of government soldiers and taking control of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city.. It was the first time ...
MORE: Middle East live updates: Syrian rebels claim Assad has fled Damascus. Assad oversaw Syria's slide into brutal civil war in 2011. His security forces sought to crush a mass protest movement ...
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.
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]
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 ...
When Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Sunday, it turned the page on not only his 24-year presidency but on more than 50 years of his family ruling Syria. Before Assad took office in 2000, his late ...
Biden called the Assad government's expulsion a "fundamental act of justice" and a "moment of opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a better future for their proud country."