Tag: Assad family
Syria – latest: Russia scrabbles to secure bases after Assad overthrow as Damascus prison tunnels searched
The Assad regime’s brutal half-century-long grip on Syria has come to an end, in a stunning defeat by opposition insurgents who seized control...
Fall of the House of Assad, with a billion-pound fortune and blood on their hands
He didn’t look like a dictator. Awkward and gangly, his mannerisms unassuming, at least until he opened his mouth, Bashar al-Assad exuded none...
The fall of Bashar Assad after 14 years of war in Syria brings to an end a decades-long dynasty
BEIRUT (AP) — The fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government Sunday brought to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold...