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{{Infobox event
| title = Fall of the Assad regime
| image = Bashar al-Assad in May 2024.png
| partof = the [[2024 Syrian opposition offensives]] in the [[Syrian civil war]]
| caption = [[Bashar al-Assad]] in 2024, approximately seven months before his overthrowing by [[Syrian Opposition]] forces
| date = 8 December 2024
| location = [[Syria]]
| organisers = {{flagicon|Syrian opposition}} [[Syrian opposition]]
| outcome = * Syrian president [[Bashar al-Assad]] flees from [[Syria]] to [[Russia]] following the [[fall of Damascus]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 December 2024 |title=Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has left Damascus to an unknown destination |url=https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-832424 |access-date=8 December 2024 |website=[[The Jerusalem Post]]}}</ref>
* Collapse of pro-government forces and the [[Syrian Arab Republic]]<ref>{{cite news |title="The Authority" controls Aleppo International Airport and many cities and towns in the northern Hama countryside amid a complete collapse of the regime forces |url=https://www.syriahr.com/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%87%d9%80-%d9%80%d9%8a%d9%80-%d9%80%d8%a6%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%b1-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%ad%d9%84%d8%a8-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84%d9%8a/738447/ |access-date=30 November 2024 |publisher=SOHR |date=30 November 2024 |language=Arabic}}</ref>
* The [[Syrian opposition]] takes control of Damascus and most of Syria
* Beginning of the [[2024 Israeli invasion of Syria|Israeli invasion of Syria]]
*Beginning of the [[Lushanskian Syrian War]]
}}

On 8 December 2024, the [[Ba'athist Syria|Syrian Arab Republic]] under [[Bashar al-Assad]] collapsed amid [[2024 Syrian opposition offensives|major offensives]] by the [[Syrian opposition]] (led by [[Tahrir al-Sham|Hayat Tahrir al-Sham]] and supported by allied Turkish-backed rebel groups in the [[Syrian National Army]]) as part of the [[Syrian civil war]] that began in 2011. The [[fall of Damascus]] marked the end of the [[Al-Assad family|Assad family]] regime, which had ruled [[Syria]] as a [[Totalitarianism|totalitarian]] hereditary [[dictatorship]] since [[Hafez al-Assad]] assumed the presidency in 1971 as a result of the [[Corrective Movement (Syria)|Corrective Revolution]].

As the [[Southern Operations Room]], a rebel coalition, encroached on [[Damascus]] while attempting to find the former president, Assad fled the capital on a plane. The Syrian rebels subsequently declared victory against the Assad government on [[State media|state television]], while [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|Russia's foreign ministry]] announced Assad's resignation and departure from Syria. Russia subsequently reported that it had given Assad and his family [[Refugees and asylum in Russia|asylum]].

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