Deception and betrayal: Inside the final days of the Assad regime
Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.
How Assad's army collapsed in Syria: demoralised conscripts, absent allies
Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army outpost in ...
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Proof that Syrian 'prisoner' discovered and freed by CNN crew was one of Assad's ruthless henchmen as ex-intelligence officer is now missing
He is dressed in military uniform, further proving his links to the Assad regime. According to CNN, the image was fact-checked with facial recognition software which showed that the image of the ...
Syrian rebel fighters set fire to tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father
Images show the fighters standing next to the burning gravesite of Hafez al-Assad in the former president's hometown.
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The implosion of Assad’s army, told by those who dropped their weapons and ran
“We were told to abandon everything, to ditch our weapons and our uniforms ... most notorious military prison. Samar Hamid, a former Syrian sergeant, says ‘none of us loved Assad’ and ...
How Syria’s rebels overcame years of a bloody stalemate to topple Assad
The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...
The Associated Press on MSN12d
US military flies American released from Syrian prison to Jordan, officials say
Timmerman said he was released Monday morning alongside a young Syrian man and 70 female prisoners, some of whom had their ...
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Israeli strikes destroy Syria's weapons of war as ousted Assad laments country's fall into "hands of terrorism"
Damascus — A CBS News team drove through a Syrian military airbase ... rebels or simply shed their uniforms and ran away is old and clearly lacking maintenance. Assad's office issued the first ...
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Demoralised and abandoned by allies: why Assad’s army failed to fight in Syria
Reuters journalists entering Syria on Sunday found army uniforms still strewn across ... a serving senior military intelligence officer said, saying there was "growing resentment against Assad," ...
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US military flies American released from Syrian prison to Jordan, officials say
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has transported out of Syria an American who had disappeared seven months ago into former President Bashar Assad’s ... in U.S. military uniform in the flat ...