NEWS ANALYSIS. In a country occupied by foreign powers, exhausted by a decade of civil war and located in a region where ...

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

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The Arab Spring, which began in 2011, was dubbed as the starting point in removal of dictators in West Asia and North Africa.

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The fall of the Assad dynasty after 54 years in power, and the winding up of the Baath party, was a major setback for both ...

The Arab Spring hit Syria in 2011 as demonstrations broke out against Assad, who responded violently, yielding a multi-sided ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Prime minister to remain under observation in fortified hospital room for several days * Former US president Jimmy Carter ...

BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that ...