All news on the topic: Bashar Assad

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The Ottoman Empire resurges: how Turkey gained from the fall of the Assad regime
On Dec. 9, Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Syria has entered a “bright period” in its history.
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Assad claims he had no plans to leave Syria but was evacuated by Russian forces
The comments are the first by the ousted leader since he was overthrown by insurgent groups.
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What Syria’s uncertain future could mean for Britain’s security
Events in Syria have moved at lightning pace over the last two weeks.
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How the drug trade funded Bashar al-Assad’s £5 billion regime in Syria
Syrian rebels seized control of Damascus in an offensive that toppled the iron-fisted ‘tyrant’ President Bashar al-Assad and took the world by surprise.
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What’s next for Assad’s British wife? Could she make a return to the UK?
Asma Al Assad was once seen as the face of female liberation in the Middle East; with her successful career in banking and her secular British upbringing.
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Bashar al-Assad’s family owns $40M in luxury apartments in Moscow
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s extended family and associates own $40 million worth of luxury apartments in Moscow’s skyscraper district, according to the anti-corruption campaign group Global Witness.
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Video reveals Assad ’family bunker’ under palaces with drive-through escape tunnels
Syrian rebels say they have discovered a huge tunnel network underneath Bashar Al-Assad’s palaces.
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US conducts mass airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria following rebel takeover
As statues of Assad and his father Hafez were being toppled across Syria, in Damascus a jubilant Ghazal al-Sharif was rejoicing. He said: “Damn his soul and the soul of the entire Assad family"
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Bashar al-Assad in Moscow with family after Russia grants him asylum
Syrian rebels have toppled Bashar al-Assad, ending his family’s 54-year authoritarian rule after nearly 14 years of war - and the leader is now in Moscow with family
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Syrian rebels overthrow Assad’s regime as Damascus erupts, with looters raiding the president’s home and central bank
The Syrian capital has erupted in celebrations following the fall of the Assad regime, as the Syrian leader fled the country on Sunday.
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From doctor to brutal dictator: the rise and fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
Toppled president came to power keen to show he was different to his father but proved to be as repressive
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Syrian insurgents advance on Homs, aiming for Damascus and forcing thousands to flee
Islamist-led opposition forces have captured Aleppo and Hama, catching President Assad’s regime off guard, and could soon have a route to the capital
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Syrian opposition supports US bill targeting Captagon trafficking
A U.S.-based Syrian opposition organization welcomed on Thursday a bill U.S. President Joe Biden signed a day earlier in order to combat the production and trafficking of a potent drug...
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Knifeman who stabbed kids in playground was member of Assad militia
The 32-year-old knifeman served in warmonger Bashar al-Assad's military from June 2011 to December 2012, which is why his asylum application in Sweden was refused
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Inside warmonger's $1billionn palace as war rages and earthquake hits country
While no one knows exactly where warmonger Bashar al-Assad, his British wife Asma al-Assad and their three children live, they have multiple palaces throughout country and a net worth of a few million
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Evil presidents Putin and Assad join forces to make brutal war vows and threats
At the three-hour lunch in Moscow, warmonger Bashar Assad met his top ally Russian President Vladimir Putin and reaffirmed his support of the war in Ukraine
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Putin to ‘put screws harder and harder’ into Ukraine as his war aims fail
A war crimes investigator who analysed Russian activity in Syria for the United Nations, told The Mirror he fears civilian deaths will increase as Vladimir Putin's aims fail a year on
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Miracle as five family members found alive after days under earthquake rubble
Rescue workers extricated the family of five from among a mound of debris in the hard-hit town of Nurdagi, in Gaziantep province, where they had been surviving under the rubble for five days
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At least 10 killed including children as five-storey building collapses in Syria
Children and women died as a result of the collapse in the Sheikh Maqsood neighbourhood of Aleppo city, in the country's northwest