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.

Assad's regime was a highly personalist dictatorship [5] that governed Syria as a totalitarian police state. [6] It committed systemic human rights violations and war crimes, making it one of the most repressive regimes in modern times. The regime was consistently ranked among the "worst of the worst" within Freedom House indexes. [7]

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...

From 1971 until its collapse, it was ruled by the Assad family, and was therefore commonly referred to as the Assad regime. The regime emerged in the wake of the 1963 Syrian coup d'état and was led by Alawite neo-Ba'athist military officers.

Dec 9, 2024 · In a speech from the Umayyad Mosque on Sunday, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of Syria’s main rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), called the toppling of Assad a “victory for the entire...

Dec 8, 2024 · Opposition forces have taken control of the capital after a significant offensive. Here is how it unravelled. In the early hours of Sunday morning, opposition forces declared Syria liberated from...

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...

Dec 9, 2024 · Between 2011 and 2021, the Assad regime killed 306,887 civilians, including 27,126 children. The Assad regime deliberately concealed the fate and whereabouts of forcibly disappeared people, with estimates placing the number at upward of 150,000 people.

Dec 8, 2024 · More than 50 years of Assad family rule in Syria collapsed with astonishing speed after insurgents burst out of a rebel-held enclave in the country’s north, capturing Aleppo and a string of other...

Dec 12, 2024 · After Syrian opposition forces captured the capital city of Damascus on Dec. 8 and forced the country's president, Bashar al-Assad, to flee, Syrians in the country and around the world are...