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Bashar al-Assad, responsible for 202,000 civilian deaths, now plays video games in Moscow luxury apartment

Bashar al-Assad, the man who killed 202,000 civilians including 23,000 children, gassed 1,400 people to death in a single attack, and ran a torture network so sadistic that prisoners were kept in ...
AOL

Former Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad Reportedly Spends His Days Gaming It Out

Bashar al-Assad passes the time playing online video games in his Moscow high-rise, according to a former military officer close to the Assad family who spoke to German newspaper Die Zeit. The ousted ...
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'Fragmented presence': One year after Assad’s fall, Moscow struggles to maintain its influence in Syria

In 2017, as Russia’s intervention in the Syrian Civil War was at its height, Moscow’s Defense Ministry mistakenly reported that Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani had “lost” an arm in a ...
Washington Examiner

Syria’s Sharaa meets Putin in Moscow, but Assad haunts event from the shadows

Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa touched down Wednesday in Moscow, the same city in which the dictator he overthrew now lives in protected luxury. Sharaa was in Russia to meet with President Vladimir ...
WRAL

Syria’s interim president visits Putin in Moscow for first meeting since fall of Assad regime

(CNN) — Syria’s interim president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, travelled to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the first face-to-face contact the pair have had. (CNN) — ...
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Ex-Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Whose Forces Killed Over 200,000 Of His Citizens, Poisoned In Assassination Attempt While In Exile In Russia

Human rights group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights disclosed that the former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had been poisoned in an assassination attempt. According to The U.S. Sun, the group ...
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Russia Threatened to Halt Syrian Oil Operations if Assad Regime Didn’t Pay Debt

Leaked meeting minutes show Russia’s deputy defense minister leaning on Syria to pay a $37-million bill for keeping oil ...
The American Conservative

Putin Meets Syria’s al-Sharaa, a Former Enemy, in Moscow

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa met Wednesday with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and promoted closer ties between the two ...