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Bashar al-Assad and his life of luxury on the Mediterranean coast
Syrians saw hope reborn. After more than 13 years of repression against its people, the regime of Bashar al-Assad fell, ...
Deception and betrayal: Inside the final days of the Assad regime
Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Inside the house of Assad
Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...
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When Damascus traffic cops fled, volunteers stepped in
At a Damascus intersection, young volunteers act as unofficial traffic cops after police assigned to the duty deserted their ...
How Syria’s rebels overcame years of a bloody stalemate to topple Assad
The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...
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Syria's Bashar al-Assad: the crimes of a physician
Assad, an ophthalmologist who graduated from Damascus University (Syria) and specialised at the Western Eye Hospital in London (UK), had a sudden career shift to politics and became Syria's President ...
He toppled a dictator and traded fatigues for a suit — Syria’s new leader tries to reassure the U.S.
As a former Al Qaeda fighter with a U.S. bounty on his head, experts say Abu Mohammad al-Jolani's first challenge has been ...