Bashar al-Assad - Wikipedia
Bashar al-Assad [a] (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician, military officer, and former dictator [1] who served as the president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown in the Syrian Revolution in 2024.
Fall of the Assad regime - Wikipedia
The Assad family, c. 1993.Front: Anisa Makhlouf and Hafez al-Assad.Rear, left to right: Maher, Bashar, Bassel, Majd, and Bushra al-Assad. The Assad family had ruled Syria since 1971, when Hafez al-Assad seized power and became the president of Syria under the Syrian Ba'ath Party.After his death in June 2000, he was succeeded by his son Bashar al-Assad. [10] [11] …
Fall of Syria's President puts an end to the Assad family’s 54 years …
Dec 8, 2024 · Syrian President Bashar Assad has fled the country. Assad’s departure on Sunday brings to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto power in a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for regional and international powers.
What happened in Syria’s civil war, who took over and what’s
Dec 9, 2024 · For half a century, the Assad family ruled over Syria with an iron fist, with long-documented reports of mass incarceration torture, extra-judicial killings and atrocities against their own...
What happened in Syria? How did al-Assad fall?
Dec 8, 2024 · In the early hours of Sunday morning, opposition forces declared Syria liberated from the rule of President Bashar al-Assad as opposition forces surged into the capital. The former president...
Syrian government falls, ending 50-year rule of Assad family | AP …
Dec 8, 2024 · Syrians poured into streets echoing with celebratory gunfire on Sunday after a stunning rebel advance reached the capital, ending the Assad family’s 50 years of iron rule but raising questions about the future of the country and the wider region. Syrians celebrate the arrival of opposition fighters in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024.
How it happened: Two seismic weeks that toppled Syria’s …
Dec 8, 2024 · LONDON (AP) — Half a century of rule by the Assad family in Syria crumbled with astonishing speed after insurgents burst out of a rebel-held enclave and converged on the capital, Damascus, taking city after city in a matter of days.
The Assad regime ruled Syria for 50 years. Here’s how it fell in less ...
Dec 9, 2024 · Syrian rebel forces launched a large-scale attack on Assad’s forces in western Aleppo, the first sign of what was to come from their offensive and marking the first flare-up between the two...
Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight
Dec 13, 2024 · Assad himself fled Damascus by plane on Sunday, Dec. 8, flying under the radar with the aircraft's transponder switched off, two regional diplomats said, escaping the clutches of rebels storming...
Who is Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader whose family ruled with …
Dec 8, 2024 · Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning...