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Bookmark or Share- Syria’s Rebels Struck When Assad’s Allies Were Weakened and DistractedSyria’s military historically struggled at urban warfare, but during the intense years of the civil war, its own air power and Russia’s allowed Mr. al-Assad to bomb the opposition into submission.
- What led to Syria's civil war and why are rebels advancing again? - The ...Assad had succeeded his father, Hafez al-Assad, after his death in 2000, extending the family’s decades-long rule. The Assads are members of Syria’s minority Alawite community, a religious ...
- Syria’s Assad trapped by rebel advance and refusal to compromiseThe Assad family’s perceived disregard for Syrians’ suffering and its own rapaciousness has helped spread discontent beyond the pocket of Assad opponents, and has metastasised across Syrian ...
- What's happening in Syria? What to know about its complex civil warHowever, Assad in a speech Saturday vowed to defend the country's "stability and territorial integrity." Syria's civil war grew out of Assad's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011.
- Bashar Al-Assad: Syria's Unyielding Leader In The Face Of Decade-Long ChaosBorn on September 11, 1965, in Damascus,Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad. For over a decade, the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria seemed to have weathered the storm of a brutal ...
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