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Timeline: How years of bloodshed and division led to Syrian President's fall

Aerial picture shows a bullet-riddled portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad adorning Hama's municipality buildin. [VOA]

The collapse of Bashar Assad's rule over Syria marks the culmination of a nearly 14-year rebellion and a key moment in a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced half the population and drew in outside powers.

This is how it unfolded:

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