You mean the same Assad that slept at Buckingham Palace, the west’s best friend, until he wasn’t. Assad is no saint, but the majority of those people, were idiotic Islamic Terrorists, the likes of ISIS & Al-Qaeda, trained, armed, financed, enabled & supported by the West, Israel and the treasonous Gulf States.
And that’s why Israel treated those Terrorists in their hospitals, and coordinated the bombing of Syria, every other week, in order to support the Terrorists.
BTW. Did you know that (K)HAMAS, the terrorist group created & financed by Israel, also supported those Salafi Terrorists.