# How the Assad Regime Fell

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Podcast: [Modern War Institute](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modern-war-institute-433892)
Published: 2024-12-13T23:15:25+00:00
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For well over a decade, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad managed to hold onto power during a complicated civil war involving a number of anti-regime rebel groups. And then, rebels launched a lightning offensive that saw a series of Syrian cities—including, ultimately, the capital Damascus—fall. Assad was gone and more than a half-century of rule by his family came to an end. To explore how that happened and what comes next, John Amble is joined on this episode by Natasha Hall, a senior fellow with the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies with deep expertise on Syria. The MWI Podcast is produced with the generous support of the West Point Class of 1974.

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