The fall of Assad is just the beginning: The struggle for Syria has resumed - opinion
The country may have exited the Axis of Resistance, but this does not mean that it has automatically crossed to the opposing camp.
THEN-SYRIAN PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad is cheered by deputies on his arrival in parliament, July 2000. He was formally sworn in after taking the office his late father, Hafez, had held for the previous three decades.