Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight - The ...
Dec 16, 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 …
Fall of Syria's President puts an end to the Assad family’s 54 years …
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 regional and international powers.
Bashar al-Assad releases first statement since he fled Syria
Dec 16, 2024 · In the first public remarks attributed to Bashar al-Assad since he left Syria, the deposed Syrian president has defended his rule and denied planning his departure as armed opposition...
In Syria, the Assads leave a bitter legacy after a half-century ... - NPR
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 Hand Is Firm, And His Ear Attentive - The New York Times
Nov 29, 1975 · General Assad, whose predecessor, Maj. Gen. Salah Jadid, is now in jail, has maintained control over the country with the support of the armed forces and of his left‐wing Baath Party.
What Assad’s fall means for the Middle East – and Russia
Dec 12, 2024 · By Saturday December 8 reports emerged that Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, had fallen – cutting government forces off from the Assad Alawite stronghold along the coast and opening up the road...
Khaled Mahjoub: The man with President Assad's ear
But many believe cynically – and their contention also bears the merit of truth – that Mr Mahjoub is President Assad's point man in the West, his role to persuade its leaders and journalists that...
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...
The man with Assad’s ear - World - DAWN.COM
Sep 30, 2013 · It's a sad state of affairs when the guy with Assad's ear is so naive that he actually thinks the World is going to put together a Marshall type plan to rebuild Syria and keep Assad in...
Bashar al-Assad - Wikipedia
Bashar al-Assad[a] (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.