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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …