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Syrian conflict 2025
March 17 , 2025
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- More than 1,000 people have been killed in Syria amid clashes between anti-government groups and security forces and a spate of “revenge killings.”
- In December, Syria’s long-time leader Bashar al-Assad was deposed by rebel groups.
- From 1971, Syria was in the control of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father and all-powerful President, seen by many as a dictator.
- Bashar took over in 2000 after Hafez died.
- In 2011, when the Arab Spring saw dictators being toppled across the West Asia, protests began against Assad too.
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