61 Years of Rule.. Timeline of the Collapse of the Bloody Baath Regime in Syria

December 1:

The Syrian National Army launched Operation Dawn of Freedom against the PKK/YPG's plan to create a terrorist corridor between Tal Rifaat and northeastern Syria.

The Syrian National Army took full control of the center of Tal Rifaat district.

On the same day, a demonstration was held in the Druze-majority province of Sweida in southern Syria, in support of the recapture of Aleppo and Idlib from the forces of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Meanwhile, the US-backed Free Syrian Army launched an attack on the Albukamal and Al-Mayadeen areas from the Al-Tanf area.

December 2:

Armed groups opposed to the Assad regime in Syria have retaken 16 more towns from regime forces in Hama province.

December 3:

The US-backed terrorist organization PKK/YPG launched an attack to expel Assad regime forces and Iranian-backed factions from 7 villages east of the Euphrates in Deir ez-Zor province.

It was reported that 81 civilians were killed and 304 others were injured in attacks carried out by the Bashar al-Assad regime and Russia on the northern Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, between November 27 and December 2.

December 4:

The Assad regime arrested people carrying weapons, aged between 15 and 47, in the Eastern Ghouta area of the capital, Damascus.

Anti-regime armed groups, which clashed with Assad regime forces about 5 kilometers outside Hama city center, took control of 20 new villages.

December 5:

Bashar al-Assad's regime forces have begun forcibly recruiting young men and women in many areas of the capital, Damascus.

On the same day, armed groups opposed to the Bashar al-Assad regime took control of the center of Hama city.

December 6:

Unknown aircraft launched an airstrike on the Rastan Bridge, which connects the provinces of Homs and Hama.

Anti-regime groups took control of the Rastan and Talbiseh areas in the strategically important Homs province.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced that it carried out an air strike on the border gates between Syria and Lebanon.

Anti-regime armed groups reached the inner parts of central Homs.

The Syrian regime evacuated its positions in the center of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, leaving the way for the terrorist organization "PKK/ZPJ", which entered the city to occupy it.

A drone attack was carried out on the area where the radio and television building and the Ministry of Defense building are located in the center of Damascus.

Local armed groups in the Druze-majority province of Sweida in southern Syria gave Assad regime forces 24 hours to leave the city.

December 7:

Anti-regime groups began entering the southern suburbs of Damascus, while the opposition took control of the city center of Homs.

Local opposition groups in Sweida Governorate also extended their control over all parts of the governorate.

December 8:

As protesters entered the main settlements in Damascus, the Assad regime largely lost control of the city.

The demonstrators released detainees from Sednaya prison, which was known to be one of the most notorious torture centers of the Assad regime.

The bloody rule of the Baath Party, which took power in Syria in 1963 and lasted 61 years, collapsed when the capital, Damascus, slipped out of the regime's control.

After the armed factions opposing Bashar al-Assad's regime took control of the capital Damascus and the regime collapsed, a video clip appeared on Syrian state television showing a group of opponents announcing the fall of Assad and the release of all detainees from prisons.

With the collapse of the Baath regime and the end of the Assad family's reign in Syria, statues of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's father, were toppled in various Syrian cities.

After the collapse of the Baath regime and the rule of the Assad family, the armed opposition factions began to advance towards the center of Deir ez-Zor, which came under the control of the terrorist PKK/YPG, which tried to expand its influence in the east of the country.

Source: Anadolu Agency