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After recapturing the Eastern Ghouta, pro-government forces set their sights on the last three opposition bastions. They retook an enclave north of Homs in May and regained full control of Deraa province two months later. They then declared their intention to "liberate" Idlib province.
The UN warned there would be a "bloodbath" if the government launched an all-out assault on an area home to about three million civilians, half of them displaced from other parts of Syria. Mr Assad was not deterred, but the offensive was halted that September by an agreement between Russia and Turkey, which called for a "demilitarised buffer zone" along the front line and the withdrawal from it of the jihadist fighters that dominate Idlib.
However, the deal was never fully implemented, and fighting on the ground and air strikes continued.
In late , Mr Assad's forces resumed their offensive. Hundreds of people were killed and almost a million fled their homes before Turkey and Russia agreed another ceasefire in March The president was then forced to turn his attention to dealing with an economic crisis that triggered angry protests in territory under his control for the first time since the start of the uprising.
Mr Assad has weathered the war but the cost of the conflict will mark Syria for years, if not decades, to come. Image source, AFP. Bashar al-Assad says he is fighting foreign-backed terrorists in Syria. An unplanned president. The Assad family has ruled Syria for more than four decades.
Flirtation with reform. Hardline diplomacy. Syria withdrew its troops from Lebanon after being blamed for the assassination of Rafik Hariri. Image source, Reuters. Mr Assad initially blamed a small number of troublemakers and saboteurs for the unrest.
Homs, like many Syrian cities and towns, has been devastated by the fighting. Chemical weapons. UN chemical weapons experts did not ascribe blame for the Sarin attack on the Ghouta.
Mr Assad's re-election in was dismissed by his opponents as a farce. Russian intervention. Russian air strikes were decisive in the battle for eastern Aleppo in Russia says 63, of its military personnel have seen combat in Syria since Battle for Idlib.
Almost one million others people displaced by the fighting in Idlib in and BEIRUT AP — Primary schools around Syria will close down indefinitely next week amid a severe increase of coronavirus cases in the war-torn country, while universities will suspend classes for only two weeks and high schools will remain open, the government announced Saturday Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the divided U.
Security Council on Monday to stop making humanitarian aid to war-torn Syria a political issue and open more border crossings to get food and other help to BEIRUT AP — The government of war-torn Syria said Wednesday it will send emergency oxygen supplies to neighboring Lebanon, which has experienced shortages amid a surge of coronavirus infections in both countries DAMASCUS, Syria AP — Intensive care units in public hospitals in the Syrian capital Damascus have reached full capacity due to a sharp rise of coronavirus infections, leading doctors to transfer patients to hospitals in other provinces, the health ministry said late Thursday Sections U.
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