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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.
615–672 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]
On the same day, two civilians were killed in shelling between Pro-Assad militias and SDF forces Abu Al-Hamam town in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor. [166] On 12 August, the SOHR reported that at least 45 people had been killed in the Pro-Assad/SDF clashes along the Euphrates river in the Deir ez-Zor countryside. [167]
On November 30, the rebel groups conducted a lightning-fast offensive, killing dozens of government soldiers and taking control of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city.. It was the first time ...
Here's how the world's been reacting to Assad's fall. US: President Joe Biden "At long last, the Assad regime has fallen," Biden said on Sunday during a press briefing in the Roosevelt Room.
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.
Since 2011, the Assad regime has arrested and detained children without trial until the age of 18, after which they were transferred to Ba'athist military field courts and killed. A 2024 investigative report by the Syrian Investigative Journalism Unit (SIRAJ) identified 24 Syrian children who were forcibly disappeared, had their assets ...
The Iranian rial is down 46% this year, making it officially the least-valuable currency in the world. Iran has long vowed revenge for Trump approving the 2019 killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani ...