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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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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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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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Berlin: German hospitals and other employers fear worker shortages if many Syrian refugees return home after the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, a concern backed by a study released Friday. Health care providers have warned that more than 5,000 Syrian doctors work in German medical facilities, often in rural areas, and that they and other…
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Syria’s Sednaya Prison | Video Credit: The Hindu As Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell in Syria on December 8, relatives of detainees in the country’s various prisons have been lining up to search for their missing family members. One such prison, Sednaya prison, became infamously known as a ‘human slaughterhouse’ due to its alleged brutal treatment…
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A signed portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, dated 2002, was among the treasures inside Bashar al-Assad’s New Shaab Palace in Damascus, now overrun by rebel forces. The portrait, a relic of the Syrian president’s diplomatic visit to Buckingham Palace with his British-born wife Asma, was discovered in a room stuffed with prized…
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia transported Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted as Syria’s president by a lightning rebel offensive, very securely to Russia, the country’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, told NBC News in an interview aired on Tuesday. Also read: Syria’s Assad and his family are in…
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Beirut: Syrian rebels who ousted president Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday that they had taken the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, while a war monitor confirmed Kurdish forces had withdrawn. “Our forces have seized the entire city of Deir Ezzor,” the rebels said in a statement, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor…
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Jerusalem: The Israeli military said Tuesday that it conducted about 480 strikes over the past 48 hours on strategic military targets in Syria, days after the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad. “Within the last 48 hours, the IDF (army) struck most of the strategic weapons stockpiles in Syria, preventing them from falling into the hands…
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Moscow: A senior Russian official told US broadcaster NBC on Tuesday that deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is being hosted in Russia, in the government’s first confirmation of the situation. Russia transported Assad there “in the most secure way possible” amid the collapse of his government in the face of a rebel takeover, deputy foreign…
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