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Events on Sunday 8 December 2024 1
2024The Assad regime falls in SyriaFifty-four years of family rule end in eleven daysA rebel offensive that began in late November captured Damascus on 8 December 2024, ending the rule of Bashar al-Assad and fifty-four years of Assad family control. Assad fled to Russia.