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Among those sanctioned were two cousins of Bashar al Assad and Khalid Qaddour, a close associate of Maher al-Assad who was described as a “key drug producer and facilitator” of captagon ...
Germany: Chancellor Olaf Scholz Scholz posted identical statements on Sunday in German, Arabic, and English. "Today, we stand with all Syrians who are full of hope for a free, just, and safe Syria ...
A video shared on Facebook claims to show former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s plane crashing. Verdict: False The video is not from Syria. It is from India. Fact Check: The video claims to ...
In 2024 after collapse of Bashar al-Assad regime, Ali Khamenei stated that Iran's support for the Ba'athist Syria in 2013 was a response to Hafez al-Assad's support for Iran during the Iran–Iraq War by blocking transit of 1 million barrel of oil through the Mediterranean Sea. [25]
However by 1997, Syrian president Hafiz al-Assad began reestablishing relations with Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. [44] The ascendance of Bashar in 2000 boosted this process, [45] and Syria ignored the sanctions against Iraq, helping Iraq to illegally import oil. [46] Bashar al-Assad opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. [45]
In July 2011, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said president Assad had “lost legitimacy.” [81] On 18 August 2011, Barack Obama issued a written statement echoed by the leaders of the UK, France, and Germany, that inter alia said: “The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in ...
For four years, he had led Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, the Al-Nusra Front but he eventually split from it, declared war on its rival ISIS, and orchestrated the killing of its leader.
The Bashar al-Assad government captured a number of sophisticated communications devices from opposition fighters, including Thuraya mobile satellite phones, very high and ultra-high frequency (VHF/UHF) devices, and Inmarsat mobile communication satellite systems. [84] In February 2012, Qatar had supplied the army with 3,000 satellite phones. [248]