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The Tikvah Podcast·Episode 388·Dec 13, 2024

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on the Fall of Syria and the Death of Baathism

On March 8, 1963, the Baath party overthrew the government of Syria, and since then the Assad family has ruled the country—until last weekend, when the son of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad, fled to Russia. The 60-year Baathist domination of Syria came to an end, deposed by a Sunni Islamist organization called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

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