How did the Assads come to power? Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among them Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt – who came ...

The Assads are thought to be there with their three ... “Karim, 11, is as active as his mother and is the house sports star. He is learning Chinese. “Zein, 12, is learning Spanish.

While the Assads lived in luxury ... was a city built on a marble rock and a square of aquamarine in every house,” he said, referring to the trappings of wealth enjoyed by Assad’s family.

He steps into the middle of what would have been the living room of this house, with marble floors and two massive, low-hanging crystal chandeliers. Stacked against one wall are brown drums of a ...

The Wall Street Journal reports on the international search getting underway: ・Plan B: "They had a lot of time before the revolution to wash their money," says former White House official Andrew ...

But with Russia distracted in Ukraine and Hezbollah hammered by Israeli airstrikes, Syria’s Sunni Islamist-led opposition has swept the Assads away ... its proxy in the House of Assad, but ...

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