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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 ...
Many Syrian Army personnel fled to Iraq during the fall of the Assad regime. Following Assad's departure, the Syrian Arab Army Command gave an announcement to its soldiers and officers that they were no longer in service as of 8 December 2024, claiming the Assad government had ceased to exist.
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 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]
The Assad regime itself had been decaying for years, riven by internal division and the effects of organized crime, ... At least 500,000 Syrians have since been killed, more than 130,000 more ...
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."
On the same day, two civilians were killed in shelling between Pro-Assad militias and SDF forces Abu Al-Hamam town in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor. [166] On 12 August, the SOHR reported that at least 45 people had been killed in the Pro-Assad/SDF clashes along the Euphrates river in the Deir ez-Zor countryside. [167]
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.