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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 ...
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]
The Assad family, c. 1993.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.
The United States, European Union, and the majority of the Arab League called for Assad to resign. The civil war has killed around 580,000 people, of which a minimum of 306,000 deaths are non-combatant; according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, pro-Assad forces caused more than 90% of those civilian deaths. [3]
Putin’s regime has killed, the UN estimates, about 12,000 civilians in just under three years. To many non-extremists this looks like racism and hypocrisy on the part of the West.
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.
On 30 April, at least 11 people were killed after the Syrian Air Force dropped a barrel bomb near Daraa. [142] Four children were reportedly among the dead. On 26 September, as many as 70–80 people were killed in the desert by Syrian government forces, according to witnesses. [143]
2.2.2 Documentary films & TV series. 2. ... This is an incomplete list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by History Channel/H2 ... The Men Who ...