I took off my uniform, left my weapons ... At the centre, former military, police and intelligence officers, as well as anyone who was part of pro-Assad militia groups, can register for a ...

Assad never considered stepping down ... While the soldiers were seen leaving their posts and taking off their military uniforms, the rebels from the HTS and the Syrian National Army, composed ...

Eid al-Fitr in Syria was charged with newfound joy this year, as thousands freely celebrated the holiday for the first time after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. From the early ... dressed in uniform and ...

Various groups have been fighting the Assad regime in a ... media appear to show Syrian military members putting up minimal resistance and discarding their uniforms as rebel forces approached ...

Nearby, a military checkpoint had been deserted, with discarded uniforms strewn beneath a poster of Assad’s face. Residents reported hearing explosions and gunfire throughout the city.

But Assad’s own soldiers had abandoned him first. The retired military officer I met in Jableh ... soldiers tearing off their uniforms, gunfire, honking, people fleeing on foot.