China’s envoy to the United Nations declared on Tuesday that Beijing is seeking to “play a constructive role” in the future of Syria following the fall of Chinese ally Bashar Assad.
The Assad family ruled Syria for over 50 years and, under Bashar Assad, waged a civil war against various opposition factions since 2011. The Assad regime fell on December 7 when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an al-Qaeda offshoot jihadist terror organization, entered Damascus, sending the dictator fleeing. A message alleging to be from Assad, now exiled in Russia, released on Monday claimed that Assad at no point resigned the presidency or chose to flee.
Assad’s regime held on over a decade of civil war through its connections with Russia and Iran. By
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