{"id":174065,"date":"2025-12-08T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/174065\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:42:07","slug":"syria-marks-year-since-dramatic-fall-of-assads-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/174065\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria marks year since dramatic fall of Assad&#8217;s rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Assad lost his grasp of powerpublished at 13:16 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:16 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman holds up the flag adopted by the new Syrian rulers, as people celebrate after fighters of the ruling Syrian body ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in the Damascus old city, Syria\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cb425108-1eb1-4840-99a3-9fe98dbe6d11.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s ousting from power came as a surprise to<br \/>\nthe world, as city after city fell to advancing rebel forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since coming into power in 2000, Assad had ruled over Syria<br \/>\nwith an iron fist, much like his father, Hafez, did before his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2011, a civil war ravaged the country after his violent<br \/>\nclampdown on peaceful protests, leaving millions of refugees scattered across<br \/>\nthe globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But after a decade of unrest, he lost his grasp of power in<br \/>\na rapid uprising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Led by militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the rebels<br \/>\nfirst seized Aleppo, the country&#8217;s second largest city, with very little<br \/>\nresistance. Next it was Hama, and days later it was the vital hub of Homs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As news of their progress spread, allied rebels also started<br \/>\nan uprising from the country&#8217;s east and south \u2013 their offensive from all sides<br \/>\nisolated the capital, Damascus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fallen leader and his family fled to Russia \u2013  an allied nation of his regime \u2013 where they<br \/>\nremain today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In our next post, we&#8217;ll take a closer look at the days leading up to Assad&#8217;s fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Assad lost his grasp of powerpublished at 13:16 GMT 13:16 GMT Image source, Reuters Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s ousting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-174065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}