Bashar al-Assad’s regime was reportedly responsible for the deaths of more than 200,000 Syrian civilians from the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in March 2011 to June 2024.
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One week into a new Syria, rebels aim for normalcy and Syrians vow not to be silent again
A transformation has started to take place in the week since the unexpected overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar Assad.
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Syria’s future will be brighter with U.S. help
Preventing a terrorist resurgence and ensuring the battered nation’s new government represents all Syrians is in America’s best interests, too.
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Fall of Assad puts Russia’s large military footprint in Syria at risk
The United States and other nations have bases in the country, but none as large or significant as Russia’s.
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Timeline: The shocking speed of Syria’s rebel advance against Assad
His poster once loomed over almost every corner. Family statues stood over busy streets. Syrian rebel forces said they had entered Damascus on Sunday, dislodging President Bashar al-Assad, whose family has ruled Syria with an iron fist for more than 53 years. The lightning offensive, led by the armed Islamist faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, ended […]
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Stabilizing Syria will be a major challenge for fractured opposition and external backers
Opposition forces marched into Damascus on Dec. 8, seemingly ending the half-century rule of the Assad family. But what happens next?
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Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad given asylum in Moscow, Russian state news agencies say
The Russian agencies, Tass and RIA, cited an unidentified Kremlin source on Assad and his family being given asylum in Moscow, his longtime ally and protector.
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U.S. airstrike targeting al-Qaida leader in Syria killed a farmer, American military says
U.S. Central Command said an investigation into the May 3 strike concluded that U.S. forces misidentified the intended al-Qaida target ‘and that a civilian, Mr. Lufti Hasan Masto, was struck and killed.’
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Syria says an Israeli airstrike destroyed Iran’s consular building in Damascus
The strike on the Iranian consulate building, which killed several people, could mark an escalation of the Israeli military’s ongoing targeting of Iranian military officials and allies in Syria.
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Israel strikes in Syria kill dozens, including soldiers and Hezbollah militants
Hostilities have soared along the Lebanese border in near-daily exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah that have raised the specter of all-out war.