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According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, pro-Assad forces caused more than 90% of the civilian deaths. [21] The Assad government perpetrated numerous war crimes during the course of the Syrian civil war, [a] and Assad's army, the Syrian Arab Armed Forces, also carried out several attacks with chemical weapons. [27]
In a sign the regime was desperate, Syria’s Air Intelligence Directorate, a key agency close to the Assad family, accused its men of “laxity” at checkpoints throughout the country after one ...
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 ...
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.
Assad visited Moscow on Nov. 28, a day after Syrian rebel forces attacked the northern province of Aleppo and lightning drive across the country, but his pleas for military intervention fell on ...
Throughout the occupation, the Assad regime promoted the idea of "Greater Syria," taking steps to integrate Lebanon into Syria. [ 3 ] At the end of the civil war in 1989, Lebanon was divided between two rival administrations: a military one led by Michel Aoun in East Beirut and a civilian one under Selim el-Hoss in West Beirut, supported by Syria.
Former Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday made his first official statement since being toppled by a rebel offensive and fleeing the country for Russia, declaring that he left Syria after a ...
Although the Assad government has enjoyed a political alliance with ruling clerics in Iran from the time of its establishment, this alliance is not driven by any common religious/sectarian causes; the Ba'ath government in Syria does not participate in Iranian religious issues, and the Ayatollahs in Iran do not consider Assad a Shiite partner.