Russian forces stay in Syria after Al-Assad regime’s fall | 21,280 ki*lled by Russian forces in nine years of military support - المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان

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Russian forces are still stationed in Syria after the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime on 8 December 2024. Moscow backed the regime militarily and politically for over nine years, the bloodiest period of the Syrian war. On September 30, 2015, the Council of the Russian Federation granted the Russian president Vladimir Putin the mandate to intervene militarily in Syria, where Russian forces launched a series of strikes and raids, tipping the balance in the regime’s favour. Cities, towns and villages were bombed, thousands of civilians were killed or wounded, and millions fled, as Russian suppor…