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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]
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 ...
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 ...
The sudden collapse of Assad’s regime has left most global powers scrambling to reassess their strategies in Syria, but for Turkey, it presents a unique opportunity to solidify its influence in ...
In December 2024, a surprise offensive by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other rebel forces, some backed by Turkey, overthrew the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, ending over five decades of Assad family rule in Syria. The surprise offensive, originating in the country's northwestern region, resulted in al-Assad and his family ...
Hama city is a strategic city which had supply lines to loyalist coastal strongholds [20] and is close to areas inhabited by Alawites who had largely backed the Assad government in the past. Furthermore, the city acts as junction connecting all four main areas of Syria: North, south, east and west.
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.
For much of its 13 years, the horrors of Syria’s grinding civil war felt unending. Now, after just 11 days, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is gone, the dictator fleeing his country in ...