Part Two: Bashar al Assad: The Eye Doctor Who Murdered a Nation
Behind the Bastards
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The Story of the Syrian Civil War
On July 29, 2011, seven Syrian Arab army officers defected from the military. By November, the FSA was strong enough to launch armed attacks on the regime itself. In January of 2012, Nusrah Front, an Islamist rebel group, declared their opposition to the regime. Whole cities wound up an open rebellion to the state.
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