Author: Unknown
Published on: 30/01/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
The Baath party had ruled the country for decades until it was overthrown. But it wasn’t the only group to be disbanded by the authorities. All armed factions were also officially dissolved, with the plan being to integrate former opposition forces into a new governmental structure. In Syria, the Baathists came to power in a 1963 coup. In 1966, a wing of the party led by Salah Jadid and Hafez al-Assad staged an internal coup d’etat. From then, Bashar led the party until December 8, 2024, when he fled to Moscow in the early hours of the morning. In the early hours of December 8, Syrians raided Baath party offices and trampled party flags. The opposition to al-Assad fractured into many groups after the 2011 Arab Spring uprising turned into a civil war. In late 2024, it led the operation to retake Syria’s major cities – Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Damascus – from the Al-Assad regime. Syrian civil society criticizes new administration’s failure to communicate or meet families of thousands of people who disappeared under al-Assad’s regime. What has the reaction to this move been? Mixed. Questions remain about how al-Sharaa and interim administration will bring together a diverse group of armed factions now that there is no unified enemy in al-Assad. Among the major factions that still have not agreed to join the interim administration are the US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
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