JERUSALEM — Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, who used chemical weapons a number of occasions on his inhabitants, has fled Syria after rebels stormed the capital metropolis of Damascus, according to Reuters.
Assad, who was educated as an eye fixed physician within the United Kingdom earlier than succeeding his father, and his British-born spouse, Asma al-Assad, fled with their three youngsters, in accordance with Syrian tv stories. It was not identified the place they had been headed.
Syria has been embroiled in a bloody, 13-year civil warfare as Islamist rebels seemed to overthrow the Assad dynasty. The obvious collapse of greater than 50 years of Assad household rule over the Syrian Arabian Republic can be a monumental turning level in Middle East energy politics.
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An image taken on the entrance of the Kweyris army airfield within the jap a part of Aleppo province on Dec. 3, reveals a portrait of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and a nationwide flag within the rubbish dumpster following the take over of the realm by insurgent teams (RAMI AL SAYED/AFP through Getty Images)
A coalition of largely radical Islamist teams dislodged Assad’s Iran-backed regime. The U.S.-designated terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist former Al-Qaeda affiliate that’s a part of the insurgent forces, performed the decisive function in evicting Assad, who inherited his presidency in 2000 following the loss of life of his father, Hafez Assad.
Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the Islamist chief of HTS, who has a $10 million bounty on his head from the U.S., seeks to current a toned-down model of the novel Islamism that has outlined his years of combating in Syria and in Iraq in opposition to American troops. Al-Golani was detained by the U.S. army within the first decade of this century.
Syrian specialists have advised Fox News Digital that HTS seeks to impose a totalitarian Islamist regime on the inhabitants. Phillip Smyth, an professional on Iranian regime proxy teams and Syria, who’s with the Atlantic Council, advised Fox News Digital, “HTS is a gaggle that’s an outgrowth of Al-Qaeda and has connections to Turkey. Their endgame is to create a Talibanesque society with a number of tweaks.”
Rebels In Northwest Syria Seized Military Vehicles Belonging To The Regime Along The Route Toward Kweris Airport In The Eastern Countryside Of Aleppo on Dec. 2. (Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto through APRami Alsayed/NurPhoto through AP)
Assad’s resolution in 2011 to launch a violent crackdown on pro-democracy Syrian activists throughout the Arab Spring revolts, which engulfed Egypt and Tunisia, resulted within the protracted civil warfare. Assad’s scorched-earth coverage in opposition to the residents of his nation triggered the killing of over 500,000 individuals. The UN lately introduced that it has stopped monitoring the mounting loss of life toll.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Egyptian and Jordanian officers urged Assad to flee Syria and type a government-in-exile. Jordan’s authorities denied the report.
In 2015, Assad’s regime was teetering when Russia intervened to save lots of the dictatorship. The U.S.-sanctioned Lebanese terrorist motion, Hezbollah, and its primary sponsor, Iran, each threw their weight behind Assad’s regime.
The insurgent forces who routed Assad’s forces—with the swift seize of the foremost Syrian cities of Aleppo, Hamas, and Homs—jolted each Putin and Iran. Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion of its territory has weakened Moscow. Israel has inflicted a variety of aerial assaults on Iran’s army infrastructure since Tehran’s ally, Hamas, launched a shock assault in opposition to the Jewish state on October 7, 2023.
Portraits of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, left, and his late father and predecessor, Hafez, cling on the wall of a destroyed condominium within the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil, in 2006. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP through Getty Images)
The United Nations Security Council handed Resolution 2254 in 2015, which referred to as for a cease-fire, UN-run elections and a brand new structure. Assad rejected the decision’s implementation.
After Assad launched a stunning mass chemical weapons strike on Syrian civilians in 2013, through which greater than 1,400 individuals had been killed, former President Obama’s administration reneged on its promise to take army motion in opposition to Assad.
The origin of Assad’s pressured departure might be traced again to a gaggle of schoolboys within the southwestern dusty metropolis of Daraa—the cradle of the Syrian revolt—in 2011. The younger boys used cans of graffiti to jot down on a concrete wall:”The individuals / need / to topple the regime!”
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left), Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (middle), Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (proper). ((Fox News/Getty Images))
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Assad’s cousin, Gen. Atef Najeeb, oversaw an operation that concerned reported torture of the arrested 15 boys between the ages of 10 and 15. Syrian officers ripped the boy’s fingernails out and burned and beat them.
