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Since Bashar al-Assad’s forces, along with his Russian and Iranian allies, seized Daraa in the summer of 2018, the city has been plagued by secret assassinations, explosions, hit-and-run attacks on military sites and internal conflicts. The images of classic war have disappeared, giving way to targeted assassinations in the city that ignited the spark of the Syrian uprising in 2011 against the Al Asad regime, which has ruled the country for 23 years, when he succeeded his father, who came to power in 1970 after a military coup.