Assad

A satellite image, according to Reuters analysis, shows the C5-SKY jet taxiing to the runway before its flight out of Syria, at Hmeimim air base, Syria on 8 December 2024. 2025 Planet Labs PBC/Handout via Reuters

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Operation Assad: The air mission to smuggle the Syrian despot's valuables

Yasar Ibrahim, the president's top economic adviser, arranged the leasing of the plane to transport Assad's treasured assets, relatives, aides and presidential palace personnel to the...

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'No more fear': Stand-up comedy returns to post-Assad Syria

Thoughts

The fall of Assad: Redefining power, resistance and politics in the Middle East

A man rides a bike on a street, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2024. REUTERS

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Ukraine says Assad's fall underscores Russian weakness

File photo: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad addresses the new members of parliament in Damascus, Syria in this handout released by SANA on August 12, 2020. SANA/Handout via REUTERS

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Iron-fisted Assad never quelled the Syrian rebels who came back to topple him

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Syria's Assad boosted by return to Arab fold

A general view shows the town of Majdal Shams near the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

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Israel says it will keep Golan as Assad's fortunes, US views shift

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad visit an Orthodox Christian cathedral in Damascus, Syria January 7, 2020. Photo: Reuters

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Putin meets Assad, takes swipe at US and Turkish forces in Syria

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks as he meets with the Syrian cabinet in Damascus, Syria in this handout picture released by Sana on March 30, 2021.Photo :Reuters

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