The Assad family’s brutal half-century reign has just ended and the US, Israel and Turkey are already vying for influence
As Syrians celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime on Sunday, t…
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‘Their bodies had turned to black’: Syrian chlorine victims can finally speak out ○
A chemical attack on the town of Douma killed 43 people in 2018. Now Assad has fallen, the enforced silence of those who witnessed it is over
For years, residents of Ghouta, an embattled opposition-he…
Inside Assad's drugs empire: Industrial-scale lab where dictator's lackeys made him £1.9billion profit a year by cooking up 'poor man's cocaine' to flood the West ○
A HTS fighter said they had 'destroyed and burned' a quantity of the drug found on the grounds of the Mazzeh air base in Syria. The group has vowed to end the trade.
Russian Intelligence had to persuade Assad to leave Syria in last moment drama: As rebels advanced, Putin agents convinced despot he had no chance of winning ○
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Unable to help Assad keep back the mounting rebel incursion, Russia advised their ally that he would lose the fight against the groups under HTS as they advanced on Damascus
Bashar al-Assad should be sent to wartorn Mariupol in Ukraine to fix it up in thanks for all his help from Putin, Russian politician says ○
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Assad is believed to have been given asylum in Moscow with his family after surrendering to invading rebel forces in Syria and fleeing the country last weekend
The week around the world in 20 pictures ○
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The fall of Assad in Syria, protests in Georgia, the Franklin Fire in Malibu and the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
Continue…What lies ahead for Assad and his family? ○
After 50 years of brutal rule over Syria, Bashar al-Assad and his family have fled to Russia.
‘The army just ran away’: how Bashar al-Assad lost his brutal grip on Syria ○
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Former president’s regime killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of protesters. Now Syrians are facing a new country and a new reality
One month ago, during a meeting in Beirut, a senior western di…
Assad’s fall brings joy and the call of home ○
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Exiled journalist Asser Khattab on what the news from Syria means to its diaspora
'How we took down Assad': Islamist rebels' military chief reveals how they planned to topple dictator - from unifying factions, creating drone squadron and 'help' from Putin ○
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Abu Hassan al-Hamwi, the head of the military wing of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said preparations to 'deterring aggression' or removing Assad from power were years in the making.