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612–669 foreign soldiers have been killed during the conflict, mostly by military involvement from their countries and in the border areas with Syria. 16 Iraqi servicemen killed. On 2 March 2013, one Iraqi soldier was killed during clashes between Syrian rebels and government forces at a Syrian-Iraqi border crossing. [158]
The civil war has killed over 580,000 people, of which at least 306,000 were non-combatants. The Syrian Network for Human Rights attributes over 90% of these civilian deaths to pro-Assad forces. [5] The United States, European Union, and the majority of the Arab League called for Assad to resign in 2011, but he refused and the war continued.
Many Syrian Army personnel fled to Iraq during the fall of the Assad regime. Following Assad's departure, the Syrian Arab Army Command gave an announcement to its soldiers and officers that they were no longer in service as of 8 December 2024, claiming the Assad government had ceased to exist.
Syria’s civil war began during the 2011 Arab Spring as the regime suppressed a pro-democracy uprising against Assad. More than 300,000 civilians have been killed in more than a decade of war ...
Among Assad’s worst atrocities was the 2013 sarin gas attack in the city of Ghouta, which killed more than 1,400 people and was labeled a war crime by the then-UN secretary general.
In a televised speech addressed to Americans on 8 December 2024, U.S. president Joe Biden stated: "At long last, the Assad regime has fallen. This regime brutalized, tortured, and killed literally hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrians. The fall of the regime is a fundamental act of justice". [69]
Syrians around the world celebrated as news of Assad's fall broke. ... "We declare Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad." "Today 8-12-2024 Syria is officially free," he added in a later ...
The United States, European Union, and the majority of the Arab League called for Assad to resign. The civil war has killed around 580,000 people, of which a minimum of 306,000 deaths are non-combatant; according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, pro-Assad forces caused more than 90% of those civilian deaths. [3]