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Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and his years-long regime have fallen, but the country remains a battleground for an array of actors seeking to secure interests in what may emerge to be a dangerous ...
CNN mapped how rebel groups captured several key cities, cutting off pro-regime forces and successfully toppling Assad’s regime after 11 days of fighting.
A cease-fire brokered by Turkey, which supports the opposition, and Russia, which backs Assad, has been in place since 2020. But the fresh rebel offensive started last week as anti-Assad fighters ...
Map of the 2024 Syrian opposition offensives. Planning by anti-Assad forces for an offensive against Aleppo began in late 2023 but was delayed by Turkish objections. [44] [45] Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sought negotiations with the Assad government, to "determine Syria's future together," but received a negative response. [46]
After 13 years of Syria’s grinding civil war, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is gone, the dictator fleeing his country in the face of a sensational advance by rebel forces.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said his administration would intervene any attempts to disrupt Syrian territorial sovereignty, saying; "we cannot allow Syria to be divided again," Foreign minister Hakan Fidan, on 8 December, had cautioned Kurdish groups against "taking advantage of the situation" as part of Turkey's attempt to prevent ...
On 27 November 2024, Syrian opposition groups led by Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched an offensive in northwestern Syria on the forces of the Bashar al-Assad government. This marked the first major offensive by any faction in the conflict since the March 2020 Idlib ceasefire. [15] On 5 December, opposition forces captured Hama.
A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is seen on a building in Damascus, Syria, on December 7. (Omar Sanadiki/AP) As many in Syria celebrated the end of the long rule of Bashar al-Assad ...