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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has hailed the overthrow of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's government as "a victory for humanity."

"Humanity won, compassion won, solidarity won, generosity won," Erdoğan said at an event in Ankara on Dec. 11, following the regime's collapse this weekend.

People gather to celebrate the Syrian government fall, in Istanbul, Türkiye, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024.

President Bashar al-Assad fled Syria as armed opposition forces swept into Damascus, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his oppressive rule.

A few days before his 59th birthday (on December 11), Bashar al-Assad is reported missing.

Hussam al-Aqouli remembers the exact spot along southern Iraq's Lake Sawa where his two daughters once dipped their feet into clear waters. Now he stands there two years on and the barren earth cracks beneath him.

On Sept. 28 agencies reported that the last two hospitals serving in the east of the Syrian city of Aleppo were bombed by Syrian or Russian planes.

A senior Turkish government official has said Turkey's mending of ties with Russia will have a positive impact on finding a settlement to the ongoing unrest in Syria, while however noting the two were on completely different pages over how the problem would be resolved. 

Syria's ruling Baath party and its allies won a majority of seats in parliamentary elections last week across government-held parts of the country, the national electoral commission announced late on April 16.
 

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announced on Feb. 22 that parliamentary elections are to be held on April 13, state news agency SANA reported, shortly after Washington and Moscow announced a ceasefire plan.

Vatan Party (VP) Chairman Do?u Perinçek and a Turkish delegation accompanying him has met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Nov. 20 that "international cooperation" was necessary to crush the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is the target of a U.S.-led campaign.