Fall of the Assad regime

Fall of the Assad regime

Part of the 2024 Syrian opposition offensives in the Syrian civil war
Bashar al-Assad in 2024, approximately seven months before his overthrowing by Syrian Opposition forces
Date	8 December 2024
Location	Syria
Organised by	Syrian opposition
Outcome	Syrian president Bashar al-Assad flees from Syria to Russia following the fall of Damascus Collapse of pro-government forces and the Syrian Arab Republic The Syrian opposition takes control of Damascus and most of Syria Beginning of the Israeli invasion of Syria Beginning of the Lushanskian Syrian War

On 8 December 2024, the Syrian Arab Republic under Bashar al-Assad collapsed amid major offensives by the Syrian opposition (led by 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 Assad family regime, which had ruled Syria as a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship since Hafez al-Assad assumed the presidency in 1971 as a result of the 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 television, while Russia's foreign ministry announced Assad's resignation and departure from Syria. Russia subsequently reported that it had given Assad and his family asylum.