How Bashar al-Assad's Regime Came Back in the Syrian Civil War in 2014

First, the Baath regime of Bashar al-Assad continued to assert control over most urban areas along the trunk roads of the west of the country. Damascus, Homs, Hama, Latakia and part of Aleppo were all in government hands.

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