Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose stunning insurgency toppled Syria’s president Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image, renouncing longtime ties to al-Qaeda and depicting himself as a champion of pluralism and tolerance.
Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad yesterday fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his “oppressive” rule.
"Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by (President) Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
On July 17, 2000, Assad becomes Syria's new head of state, after the death of his father, aged 69, who ruled Syria with an iron grip for 30 years.
The timeline shows how the conflict began with peaceful pro-democracy protests, then developed into a multi-sided conflict that sucked in world powers
Follow our live updates on current situation in Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday told his troops they were close to winning the country's seven-year civil war after inflicting a succession of defeats on rebels.
Thamer & Thayer, brothers from Syria, escaped war, then unrest in Libya only to be faced with death on the Mediterranean
Mouhamad, a 40-year-old dentist and poet, lived in Aleppo, Syria, for many years.
Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose stunning insurgency toppled Syria’s president Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image, renouncing longtime ties to al-Qaeda and depicting himself as a champion of pluralism and tolerance.
Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad yesterday fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his “oppressive” rule.
"Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by (President) Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
On July 17, 2000, Assad becomes Syria's new head of state, after the death of his father, aged 69, who ruled Syria with an iron grip for 30 years.
The timeline shows how the conflict began with peaceful pro-democracy protests, then developed into a multi-sided conflict that sucked in world powers
Follow our live updates on current situation in Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday told his troops they were close to winning the country's seven-year civil war after inflicting a succession of defeats on rebels.
Thamer & Thayer, brothers from Syria, escaped war, then unrest in Libya only to be faced with death on the Mediterranean
Mouhamad, a 40-year-old dentist and poet, lived in Aleppo, Syria, for many years.
Islamic State fighters capture territory from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border and inch closer to a town on a supply route for foreign-backed insurgents fighting the jihadists, a monitoring group said.
