Exclusive: The Story Is Now Over For Bashar al-Assad, The Fallen Dictator. What Does A New Syria Mean For India?

Bashar’s biggest mistake was to follow his father’s style of governance, which was despotic. He failed to take the necessary economic reforms, and that eventually led people to revolt against him.

File image of Syria's ousted President, Bashar al-Assad, who is now believed to be in Russia.

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Syria/Bashar al-Assad: “Syria is a jungle, and Bashar is not yet a wolf,” former Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad had once said about his younger son, the now-ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to a friend. Decades later, the prophecy seemed to have come true, as Bashar fled the country after rebel forces — under the aegis of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) — took over Damascus.   The fall of Damascus on 8 December 2024 had an eerie resemblance to the fall of