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Daad al-Assad, is married to General Zouheir al-Assad, who was born in 1958 and is a distant cousin. Zouheir al-Assad commanded the 90th Regiment, a unit of some 10,000 men, charged with protecting the capital. [68] Karam Al Assad, led a group of Shabiha. He and his group of shabiha led an assault against the peaceful protests during the "night ...
Following the fall of the Assad regime in mid-December 2024, graves attributed to the rule of the Assad family, including both Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad, were uncovered by NGOs such as Human Rights Watch along with several academic researchers associated with the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the University of Amsterdam.
A post shared on social media purportedly shows a video of Syrian media report on a 500-year-old scroll in Bashar al-Assad’s house. Verdict: False The video shows an ancient Jewish scroll ...
Assad and her husband have three children. Their first child, a son named Hafez , named after Hafez al-Assad , was born in 2001, followed by a daughter in 2003, and their second son in 2005. [ 12 ] In January 2013, Bashar stated in an interview that Asma was pregnant; [ 59 ] [ 60 ] however, there were no later reports of them having a fourth child.
COMMENT: Syrians have welcomed the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad but the celebrations may not last long as the war-torn country still faces a troubled future, writes The Independent’s world ...
The House of Assad has finally fallen - but chaotic Syria could still be torn apart. Assad and his family are in Moscow after Russia granted them asylum, say Russian news agencies
President Assad also told the Agence France-Presse that Syria's military had given up all its chemical weapons in 2013, and would not have used them if they still retained any, and stated that the chemical attack was a "100 percent fabrication" used to justify a U.S. airstrike. [167]
Keir Giles of Chatham House said: “The fall of Assad is undoubtedly a setback for Russia’s ambitions to project power in the Middle East.” He suggested that Assad’s fall might signal to ...