President Bashar al-Assad’s downfall, swept from power by rebel fighters, ends more than half a century of Syria’s rule by a family dynasty.
When Bashar Assad became President following his father, he was hailed as a reformer and courted by western leaders.
But mass protests in 2011 during the Arab Spring led to brutal repression and a civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and tore Syria apart.
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