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Geneive Abdo opined that Hezbollah's support for al-Assad in the Syrian war has "transformed" it from a group with "support among the Sunni for defeating Israel in a battle in 2006" into a "strictly Shia paramilitary force". [15] In August 2012, the United States sanctioned Hezbollah for its alleged role in the war. [16]
The Iraqi Government has sent Assad financial support since 2011. [62] Iraq has opened its airspace for use by Iranian planes ferrying support to the Syrian government, and has granted passage through Iraqi territory to trucks bound for Syria carrying supplies from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
On 8 April 2018, US President Donald Trump called Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad "Animal Assad", following suspected chemical attack carried out in the Syrian city of Douma. [261] On 14 April, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom carried out missile strikes against Syria .
CNN mapped how rebel groups captured several key cities, cutting off pro-regime forces and successfully toppling Assad’s regime after 11 days of fighting.
Despite its past support for Assad, it added that "determining Syria's future and making decisions about its destiny are solely the responsibility of the Syrian people, without any destructive ...
HTS wants to topple Assad, expel Iran from the area and pursue its own extremist ideology. Assad's chief military supporters have been Russia and Iran. Russia entered the conflict in 2015 to shore ...
[40] [48] [49] From the summer of 2013, Iran and Hezbollah provided important battlefield support for Assad, allowing it to make advances on the opposition. [48] In 2014, coinciding with the peace talks at Geneva II, Iran stepped up support for Assad. [40] [48] Estimates of financial assistance range from tens to hundreds of billions of dollars.
On 30 September 2015, Russia launched a military intervention in Syria (at the request of Bashar Al-Assad) to support the government of Bashar al-Assad in its fight against the rebels and Islamic State (IS). [44] [45] The Russian forces proved to be a deciding factor in the war, helping the Assad regime to stay in power. [46]