Poor morale, reliance on foreign allies: The collapse of Assad’s army in Syria explained
As rebels swept into Damascus last week, toppling former President Bashar al-Assad, his army simply collapsed, abruptly ending a 13-year conflict that had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. What ...
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Recycled metal portrayed as former dictator’s fiefdom
United Arab Emirates-based newspaper says the family of Syria’s dictator Bashar Al Assad controlled the nation’s scrap sales ...
Israel Strikes Syrian Army Positions Near Aleppo: Report
Israel bombed Syrian army positions south of Aleppo on Thursday, the latest such strikes since the overthrow of longtime ...
US ‘prepared Syrian rebel group to help topple Bashar al-Assad’
Fighters funded and trained by America and Britain tell The Telegraph they had advance warning regime would be overthrown ...
Russia blames Bashar al-Assad and his regime for Syrian rebellion
Even before the rebellion, Russia had begun to withdraw support for Assad. According to Reuters, the Syrian leader visited ...
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flees Damascus as rebels move into country’s capital
The nearly quarter-century rule of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad came to a stunning end ... local time, and Assad’s army fled from the streets, witnesses said. Assad, who has ruled the ...
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Assad has left Damascus, says Russia, as Syrian army declares end of his rule
The Syrian government has fallen after a lightning offensive by anti-regime forces across the country - ending President Bashar al Assad's 24-year ... streets after the army withdrew, dancing ...
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Syrian authorities crack down on ‘remnants’ of Bashar al-Assad’s rule
Push comes as Syria’s new de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met Bahraini, Libyan delegations in Damascus. Syria’s new administration is carrying out a security crackdown against what it has described as ...
Lebanon Security Source Says Rifaat Al-Assad Flew Out Of Beirut
Assad's uncle, Rifaat al-Assad, left the country via Beirut airport around a week ago, after rebels overthrew his nephew.
Foreign fighters given senior Syrian army posts, reports say
The new Syrian authorities are reported to have given some foreign Islamist fighters senior official posts in the country's ...
Syria says 14 interior ministry personnel were killed in ambush by al-Assad supporters
An overnight curfew was imposed by Syria’s ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebel group after 14 members of the Syria’s interior ...
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Ibn Khaldun’s asabiyya and Bashar al-Assad’s rapid downfall
A view shows a damaged poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, after the Syrian army said dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the city ...