[HISTORY] Syria Under Bashar al-Assad ‘Reign’

On December 8, 2024, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad resigned and left the country. Al-Assad last instruction was the handover of power should be peaceful. This happened after opposition militias entered Damascus 12 days after launching an offensive from the northwestern province of Idlib.  Bashar Assad’s rise to power, first terms of his rule Bashar Assad took over as the leader of the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR) in the summer of 2000 after the death of his father Hafez Assad, who had been at the helm of power since 1971. To enable Bashar Assad, who was 34 years old at that…