Assad’s Fall: The Legacy Of Repression And Foreign Influence Among Syrian Rebels – Analysis

By Mohammed Sinan Siyech and Celsabil Hadj-Cherif

The fall of Assad’s regime, while ostensibly surprising for many, was quite predictable. Syria’s economy had been devastated by more than a decade of war, compounded by sanctions that crippled state infrastructure and left 90 percent of Syrians below the poverty line....