How the Syrian rebels quelled by iron-fisted Assad came back to topple him - explainer
President Bashar al-Assad, whose regime has been defined by the Syrian Civil War, faces losing his family's decades-long control of Syria.
A view shows a damaged poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, after the Syrian army said that dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the city, in Syria November 30, 2024.(photo credit: REUTERS/MAHMOUD HASSANO/FILE PHOTO)Updated: 
