Why did Gaza inspire mass protests and social media campaigns while ... in Kafranbel, Idlib province, 2011. The civil war, beginning in 2011, unleashed one of the worst humanitarian crises in ...

Half a century of rule by the Assad family in Syria crumbled with astonishing speed after insurgents burst out of a rebel-held enclave and converged on the capital, Damascus, taking city after city in ...

By the time the end came, Assad was isolated and alone, abandoned by his main international allies, Russia and Iran ... the Arab Spring protests swept the Middle East in 2011, Syrians were ...

Russia and Iran were on one side backing ... The Syrian civil war started in 2011 after an uprising against Assad's rule. It began as street protests and quickly escalated into a full-scale ...

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...

Tehran’s abrupt withdrawal from Syria, having propped up Assad since the 2011 Arab Spring ... The instability Iran exported across the region was a weakness of the axis itself. In Iraq and Lebanon in ...

Russia, Iran and Iranian-backed militias ... When anti-government protests erupted in the southern Syrian city of Deraa in mid-March 2011, Assad appeared unsure how to respond.

Middle East” and a blow to Iran ... on March 1, 2011, the day the revolution started. “I would love to go back and live there in a big democracy.” “On that day, the first protests started.

In December, the Iran-backed group fired missiles and drones ... After the Arab Spring protests of 2011 toppled Saleh's regime, the Houthis increasingly accused Yemen's new government — then ...

The collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is testimony to the fate of authoritarian regimes. The end comes suddenly and with a speed that is baffling. Last month the Bashar al-Assad regime a ...

In the early hours of Sunday morning, opposition forces declared Syria liberated from the rule of President Bashar al-Assad as opposition forces surged into the capital. The former president in ...

Both Iran and Russia ... the Arab Spring in Syria in 2011, when pro-democracy protesters took to the streets and tore down Assad posters on top of the same gates. Protests in 2011 calling for ...