Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight
Dec 14, 2024 · Assad visited Moscow on Nov. 28, a day after Syrian rebel forces attacked the northern province of Aleppo and lightning drive across the country, but his pleas for military intervention fell on deaf ears in the Kremlin which was unwilling to …
Equestrian champion 'was tortured for 21 YEARS in Syrian jail'
2 days ago · He recalled Assad's men piercing his ear one morning, before breaking his jaw in the evening, with acts such a praying met with severe punishment. 'For praying, they lashed me 1,000 times. My feet ...
Fall of Syria's President puts an end to the Assad family’s 54 years …
Dec 8, 2024 · BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for …
What Assad’s fall means for the Middle East – and Russia
Dec 12, 2024 · Turkey gave HTS the go-ahead to proceed with its offensive after Ankara’s attempts to normalise relations with Damascus fell on deaf ears. Assad offered little or no help to Turkey in its ...
Syria Civil War: What to Know About the Fall of Bashar al-Assad
Dec 18, 2024 · The war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions. Forces loyal to Mr. al-Assad have committed by far the most atrocities.
In Syria, the Assads leave a bitter legacy after a half-century of ...
Dec 8, 2024 · Hafez al-Assad was an air force officer who seized power in a 1970 coup. Syria had already endured repeated coups, most of them short-lived. But Assad ruthlessly suppressed any potential...
Assad’s ouster after 14 years of war in Syria brings to an end a ...
Dec 8, 2024 · Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that...
The fall of Bashar Assad after 13 years of war in Syria brings to an ...
Dec 8, 2024 · BEIRUT -- Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for regional and international powers.
The Fall of Assad’s Syria - The New Yorker
Dec 8, 2024 · For fifty-four years, generations of Syrians lived and died in a country that was colloquially known as Assad’s Syria. It was a place where children were taught that the walls had ears and...
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...