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Kremlin Rejects Reports Of Bashar Al-Assad’s Wife Seeking Divorce

December 23, 2024 admin

Media reported on Sunday said that Asma al-Assad had filed for divorce. Moscow: The Kremlin on Monday rejected Turkish media reports which suggested that Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, wanted a divorce and to leave Russia. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also rejected Turkish media reports which suggested that Assad…

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Who Is Asma Al-Assad, Syrian First Lady Seeking Divorce From Bashar Al-Assad

December 23, 2024 admin

New Delhi: In December 2010 and the following months, demonstrations against corruption, poverty and political repression took Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria by storm. Around the same time in 2011, Vogue magazine published a profile on Asma al-Assad, the wife of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It was titled “A Rose in the Desert,” and in…

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How Bashar al-Assad’s Inner Circle Fled Syria After His Fall

December 21, 2024 admin

Cairo, Egypt: A lightning rebel offensive early this month caught Syria’s ruling clan off guard. President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia on December 8, leaving behind many of his collaborators, some of whom sought refuge in neighbouring countries. According to two sources, the ousted president, who fled to Moscow via the Russian military airfield in…

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US Strike Killed Islamic State Group Leader In Syria: Military

December 20, 2024 admin

Washington: American forces killed an Islamic State (IS) group leader and another of the group’s members in a strike in Syria, the US military said on Friday. Washington has stepped up military action against the jihadist group since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government earlier this month, hitting areas that were shielded by Syrian and…

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Syrian Prisoner US Reporter Freed Turns Out To Be Assad Regime Worker Accused Of War Crimes

December 17, 2024 admin

The prisoner freed by a CNN reporter alongside rebels from a secret facility in Syria was actually an intelligence member working under ousted president Bashar al-Assad, according to a local fact checker, as confirmed by the publication itself. In a video that was shared widely, CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward came across a cell…

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Assad says he wanted to keep fighting but Russians evacuated him from Syria

December 16, 2024 admin

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, July 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad says he had no plans to leave the country after the fall of Damascus a week ago but the Russian military evacuated him after their…

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Russia Pulling Back But Not Out Of Syria After Assad’s Fall: Report

December 15, 2024 admin

Russia is pulling back its military from the front lines in northern Syria and from posts in the Alawite Mountains but is not leaving its two main bases in the country after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, four Syrian officials told Reuters. The ousting of Assad, who along with his late father, former President…

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Russia Pulling Back But Not Out Of Syria: Sources

December 14, 2024 admin

Tartous: Russia is pulling back its military from the front lines in northern Syria and from posts in the Alawite Mountains but is not leaving its two main bases in the country after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, four Syrian officials told Reuters. The ousting of Assad, who along with his late father, former…

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Syrians Explore Ousted Bashar Al-Assad’s Summer Resort For First Time

December 14, 2024 admin

Latakia, Syria: Syrian cyclist Bassel Soufi rode his bike 40 km (25 miles) from the northwestern city of Latakia on Friday to visit the Assad family’s private coastal resort as local residents strolled around the compound for the first time in decades. After the family’s brutal 54-year rule and a 13-year civil war, Syrian rebels…

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Syrian Rebels Took A Year To Plan Bahar al-Assad’s Ouster: Report

December 13, 2024 admin

Damascus: Syria’s Islamist-led rebel alliance had been planning the surprise ouster of President Basher al-Assad for a year, an opposition military leader told the Guardian in an interview published Friday. The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Islamist group, which says it has moved away from its roots in Al-Qaeda, has long-controlled a part of northwest Syria….

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