Assad’s Fall: The End of Syria’s Brutal Ruling Dynasty
- A prolonged civil war had aimed to remove him from power
- Once seen as potential reformer, he tolerated no dissent
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Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president who inherited power in 2000 with promises of reform, only to brutally suppress his opponents in a war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, has been toppled in a lightning rebel advance.
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