Syria After Assad: What to Know About HTS, Hezbollah, and Iran
Dec 9, 2024 · In the past, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had counted upon the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah’s well-trained and often battle-hardened fighters to backstop Syria’s military.
Analysis: What to know about HTS, Hezbollah and Iran after Assad …
Dec 15, 2024 · What does Assad’s fall mean for Hezbollah’s military power in the region? In the past, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had counted upon the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah’s...
Hassan Nasrallah and Bashar al-Assad: the Syrian war that …
Sep 29, 2024 · They were celebrating an assassination: that of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbollah and a sworn enemy of the Syrian opposition. “We are celebrating the death of the despicable one,” a man...
Diminished Hezbollah is weaker by toppling of Bashar Assad | AP …
Dec 14, 2024 · BEIRUT (AP) — A severely hobbled Hezbollah was in no position to help defend former Syrian President Bashar Assad, a longtime ally, from the lightning-fast insurgency that toppled him. With Assad gone , the militant group based in Lebanon is even weaker.
The illusion of Assad’s grip on Syria shatters, as Russia, Iran and ...
Nov 30, 2024 · Hezbollah – which played a key role in bolstering the regime during the darkest days of the civil war – pulled most of its troops back home after October 7, 2023, to fight Israel, which has...
How the alliance between the Assad regime and Hezbollah …
Dec 9, 2024 · In reality, the Assad regime turned to Iran to escape a wave of popular unrest that it crushed in Hama in March 1982 at the cost of tens of thousands of deaths. The creation of Hezbollah gave...
How war in Syria changed the image of Hezbollah
Oct 9, 2024 · Hezbollah, which initially expressed support for popular Arab protests in countries like Egypt, took the decision to join the civil war in Syria on the side of its president, Bashar al-Assad.
Assad’s fall in Syria will further weaken Hezbollah and curtails …
Dec 11, 2024 · Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is dead; Syria’s Bashar Assad has fled. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is running out of friends. The fall of President Bashar Assad will...
The Day After Assad - Foreign Affairs
Dec 9, 2024 · As recently as a few weeks ago, the Biden administration was working with the United Arab Emirates to lift sanctions against Syria in exchange for Assad’s distancing himself from Iran and blocking Hezbollah arms shipments, according to …
Assad regime's fall delivers major blow to Iran's 'Axis of Resistance'
Dec 11, 2024 · The fall of Syrian president Bashar Al-assad has dealt another major blow to Iran's so-called "Axis of Resistance", coming as Hamas and Hezbollah were already weakened.