On Dec. 10, longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow and abdicated his position as the country's strongman after a whirlwind 12 days of regime collapse. He had inherited his ...

It is unclear if Assad's Baathist despotism in Damascus can survive the weekend. Rebels are seizin town after town, city after city, and it doesn’t seem as though pro-regime forces can mount any ...

The Assad regime ruled Syria for 50 years. Here’s how it fell in less than two weeks Story by Antoinette Radford, CNN • 1w ...

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When Syria’s rebels captured Aleppo late last week, it sent tremors through the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Those tremors have now become an earthquake. Many observers thought that capturing Hama ...

The Assad regime ruled Syria for 50 years. Here’s how it fell in less than two weeks ...

Long-suffering Syrians have been rejoicing in the streets after one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships suddenly crumbled in a few short weeks.

Syria’s emperor has no clothes. The extraordinary military advances made by Syrian rebel groups over the past week and a half have taken both the world and Syrian president Bashar al-Assad by ...

The conflict in Syria has escalated dramatically, and Islamist rebels have caught many by surprise with rapid territorial gains at the expense of the Assad regime.

On Dec. 10, longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow and abdicated his position as the country's strongman after a whirlwind 12 days of regime collapse. He had inherited his ...