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Now their rush is to keep the lid on Syria’s Pandora’s box, avoid a power vacuum and prevent the sort of chaos that almost inevitably arises when a 50-year regime topples in a matter of days ...
Bashar al-Assad [b] (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician, military officer and dictator [1] who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown in the Syrian Revolution in 2024.
Syrian rebels ousted pro-government forces from Hama on Thursday, bringing the insurgents a major new victory after a lightning advance across northern Syria and dealing a new blow to President ...
In mid-January 2025, a resurfaced video of the Minister for Justice Shadi al-Waisi triggered a public scandal in Syria. The video, shot in 2015, appears to show al-Waisi, then a member of the Al-Nusra Front, organizing and taking part in a public execution in Idlib of two women accused of "corruption and prostitution" under Sharia law. An ...
Right now there are only questions. How will Syria be governed? In the short period following Assad’s abrupt fall, rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani , has sought to reassure Syrians that the group he leads — Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS – does not seek to dominate the country and will continue ...
The politics of Syria is currently in a transitional period led by the Syrian transitional government. The seat of the government is located in Damascus , Syria . The previous government consisted of a President , a Prime Minister , and a legislative council with 250 seats.
A man walks on a poster of Bashar al-Assad as a sanitation worker removes it from the street downtown, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus ...
Syrian Ba'ath Party (Syria Region) Atassi was overthrown when a falling out occurred between Salah Jadid, the real ruler of Syria from 1966 to 1970, and Hafez al-Assad, the Minister of Defense. [11] Assad initiated a coup in 1970, known as the Corrective Movement. [12] — Ahmad al-Khatib أحمد الخطيب (1933–1982) — 18 November 1970