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Front: Anisa Makhlouf and Hafez al-Assad. Rear, left to right: Maher, Bashar, Bassel, Majd, and Bushra al-Assad. The Assad family had ruled Syria since 1971, when Hafez al-Assad seized power and became the president of Syria under the Syrian Ba'ath Party. After his death in June 2000, he was succeeded by his son Bashar al-Assad. [10] [11] [12] [13]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, speaks with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (The Associated Press) The fall of Assad marks a significant blow to Iran’s influence in the Middle East ...
The Assad family ruled Syria with an iron grip, locking up those who dared to question their rule. The country is now largely under the control of an insurgent group named Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or ...
A web of Syria's neighbors and countries around the world have backed either Assad's government or various rebel opposition groups to varying degrees. Syria's war: How barbarity, confusion and ...
A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is seen on a building in Damascus, Syria, on December 7. ... Sunday saying Assad had “decided to leave the presidential post and left the country ...