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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]
“This is an opportunity to stabilize Syria in a more meaningful way than was ever possible,” Julien Barnes-Dacey, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council ...
The collapse of Assad's government ends a 24-year reign, the president having succeeded his father Hafez al-Assad in 2000. The Assad family had ruled Syria since 1971.
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 ...
Between 2007 and 2010, Syria experienced its worst drought on instrumental record, made more likely by climate change. [4] [5] It has been proposed that the drought caused the collapse of agriculture in Syria and contributed to increased migration and contributed to the escalation of violence in 2011, although more recent analyses in Political Geography and Nature have challenged this narrative.
Biden later said the Assad regime's end was a "fundamental act of justice" but warned of possible instablity in the region. [12] Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, Daniel B. Shapiro, said United States forces would remain in eastern Syria to prevent
People gather at Saadallah al-Jabiri Square as they celebrate, after Syria's army command notified officers on Sunday that President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year authoritarian rule has ended, a ...
Biden called the Assad government's expulsion a "fundamental act of justice" and a "moment of opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a better future for their proud country."