Date first published: 10/12/2024

Key sectors: all

Key risks: war-on-land; regime change

Risk development

On 8 December opposition forces, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), declared the end of President Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year rule after entering Damascus. They imposed a citywide curfew from 16:00 to 5:00 local time while al-Assad left the country, being granted asylum in Moscow on “humanitarian grounds”.

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