Bashar al-Assad - Wikipedia
Bashar al-Assad[b] (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician, military officer and former dictator [1] who served as the 19th president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown in 2024.
Syrian government loyalists accused of executing civilians as
1 day ago · Smoke rises while members of the Syrian forces ride on a vehicle as they battle against a nascent insurgency by fighters from ousted leader Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, in Latakia, Syria March ...
Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war
1 day ago · An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.. The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the worst violence Syria has seen since December, when insurgents led by the Islamist ...
More Than 140 Killed in Clashes Between Syrian Forces and Assad ...
3 days ago · Clashes between Syria’s new authorities and gunmen loyal to the ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 147 people over the past two days, a war monitor said on Friday, in the ...
Fall of the Assad regime - Wikipedia
On 8 December 2024, the Assad regime collapsed during a major offensive by opposition forces.The offensive was spearheaded by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and supported mainly by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army as part of the ongoing Syrian civil war that began with the Syrian revolution in 2011. The capture of the capital Damascus marked the end of the Assad family's rule, which had ...
What happened in Syria? How did al-Assad fall?
Dec 8, 2024 · In the early hours of Sunday morning, opposition forces declared Syria liberated from the rule of President Bashar al-Assad as opposition forces surged into the capital. The former president...
Fall of Syria's President puts an end to the Assad family’s 54 years …
Dec 8, 2024 · Syrian President Bashar Assad has fled the country. Assad’s departure on Sunday brings to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto power in a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for regional and international powers.
In Syria, the Assads leave a bitter legacy after a half-century of ...
Dec 8, 2024 · With opposition forces entering the capital Damascus, Assad flew out of the city early Sunday morning and arrived in Moscow, where the Kremlin has granted asylum to the deposed leader, according...
What happened in Syria’s civil war, who took over and what’s
Dec 9, 2024 · For half a century, the Assad family ruled over Syria with an iron fist, with long-documented reports of mass incarceration torture, extra-judicial killings and atrocities against their own...
Who is Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader whose family ruled with …
Dec 8, 2024 · Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning...