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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.
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]
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 .
A cease-fire brokered by Turkey, which supports the opposition, and Russia, which backs Assad, has been in place since 2020. But the fresh rebel offensive started last week as anti-Assad fighters ...
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.
Russia, which first intervened directly in the Syrian war in 2015, said Monday that it continued to support Assad. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad at the ...
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]
Bashar al-Assad, Syrian President from 2000 to 2024. The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing international armed conflict taking place in Syria. [24] The unrest began in the early spring of 2011 within the context of Arab Spring protests, with nationwide protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government, whose forces responded with violent crackdowns.