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For nearly 14 years, Syria's Bashar al-Assad resisted the Arab Spring that ousted leaders across the region, maintaining power through repression and support from Russia and Iran. The pro ...

The Arab Spring, a series of anti-government protests and uprisings ... Among its most significant outcomes was the destabilization and eventual fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. What began ...

AT PENPOINTEveryone seems surprised at how fast Bashar Al-Assad fell from the Presidency of Syria, even though the uprising ...

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Bashar al-Assad, the son of a tyrant, fit right in. He ruled over Syria with an iron fist for more than two decades, ruthlessly cracking down on political opposition. When a pro-democracy movement ...

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Bashar al-Assad was not originally poised to be his ... are counted among the dead. The Arab Spring was a wave of pro-democracy protests and uprisings that took place in the Middle East beginning ...

Initially seen as a potential reformer, Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria by imposing a brutal regime that imprisoned tens of ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad ... War began after Assad’s regime refused to bow to mass pro-democracy protests that year during the Arab Spring, instead mounting a brutal ...

JERUSALEM — Syrian dictator Bashar Assad ... media outlets. Assad’s decision in 2011 to launch a violent crackdown on pro-democracy Syrian activists during the Arab Spring revolts, which ...

Only weeks ago, Arab nations had been working hard to bring Bashar al-Assad back into the fold, assuming he was there to last. They were badly mistaken. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger writes ...