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The Deposed Assad Henchmen Plotting to Retake Syria
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Credit...Aaron Byrd Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Listen to this article · 12:16 min Learn more Dec. 24, 2025 They were among Bashar al-Assad’s top spymasters and generals, men who spent over a decade brutally suppressing a popular revolt in Syria.
Ousted and in Exile, Generals Secretly Plot Insurgency in Syria
Hacked communications and a social media analysis reveal how former regime leaders are trying to arm fighters and exert influence as far away as Washington. They were among Bashar al-Assad’s top spymasters and generals, men who spent over a decade brutally suppressing a popular revolt in Syria. Now, a year after fleeing as the Assad regime collapsed, they are plotting to undermine the fledgling government that ousted them, and perhaps take back a piece of the country.
Ousted and in Exile, Generals Secretly Plot Insurgency in Syria
They were among Bashar Assad's top spymasters and generals, men who spent more than a decade brutally suppressing a popular revolt in Syria. Now, a year after fleeing as the Assad regime collapsed, they are plotting to undermine the fledgling government that ousted them, and perhaps take back a piece of the country. kAmxE :D F?4=62C :7 E96D6 7@C>6C C68:>6 @77:4:2=D A@D6 2 D6C:@FD E9C62E E@ E96 ?6H $JC:2? 2FE9@C:E:6D[ 2?5 E96J @7E6? 2C6 2E @55D H:E9 6249 @E96C] qFE :?
La familia Al Asad vive un exilio de lujo e impunidad fuera de Siria
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Apenas unas semanas después de que un torbellino de ofensiva rebelde tomara el control de su patria el año pasado, un sirio expatriado en Moscú se regaló una comida en el rascacielos más alto de la ciudad.
Assad, Ousted Syrian Ruler, Leads Life of Luxury in Russia
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Just a few weeks after a whirlwind rebel offensive seized control of his homeland last year, a Syrian expatriate in Moscow treated himself to a meal in the city’s tallest skyscraper. With views from the 62nd floor, stylish hostesses and elaborate cocktails, the restaurant “Sixty” regularly welcomes members of Russia’s political elite and foreign celebrities.
Assad’s Enforcers Brutalized Syria. Now They’re Living Large, Lying Low and Evading Justice.
Assad’s Enforcers Who They Are How They Fled How They Live Now Assad Family’s Life of Luxury اقرأ بالعربية Inside Our Reporting You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Credit... Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Listen to this article · 18:17 min Learn more Dec.
For Fallen Syrian Dictator Assad and Family, an Exile of Luxury and Impunity
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Flight of the fallen
IN the early hours of Dec 8, 2024, a small Syrian Air jet carried a notorious cargo out of Damascus International Airport – dozens of passengers, who just hours before had been the backbone of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime, were now fugitives scrambling to flee. Among them was Qahtan Khalil, director of Syria’s air force intelligence, accused of overseeing one of the civil war’s bloodiest massacres. RM 13.90/month RM 9.73/month Subscribe Billed as RM 9.73 for the 1st month, RM 13.90 thereafter.
Cómo los principales secuaces de Bashar al Asad huyeron de Siria, y de la justicia
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Poco después de la medianoche del 8 de diciembre de 2024, decenas de personas se reunieron en la oscuridad frente a la sección militar del Aeropuerto Internacional de Damasco. Cargando cualquier cosa que hubieran podido empacar, se amontonaron en un pequeño avión de Syrian Air.
The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Credit... Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Listen to this article · 18:36 min Learn more Oct. 16, 2025 Leer en español Not long after midnight on Dec. 8, 2024, dozens of people gathered in the darkness outside the military section of the Damascus International Airport. Carrying whatever they could pack, they piled into a small Syrian Air jet.
The Vanishing Act: How Assad's Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice
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Isis finds escape route for the profits of war
For years, Ammar’s tiny money transfer shop in the Turkish city of Antakya caught no one’s attention but the fellow Syrian refugees who...
Syria conflict: Raqqa’s civilians foresee last days of Isis
It was like judgment day, they said — people fled in every direction, some running into the streets in their pyjamas. Children cried.
Syria’s wartime people smugglers cash in on high demand for Isis jihadis
In the murky world of Syria’s war economy, Isis has been one of the main drivers of human trafficking during nearly six years of civil war. First, it was the biggest buyer. Now, its fighters are a top commodity.
Why ISIS Is Rooting for Trump
Donald Trump has been campaigning on a promise to eradicate the Islamic State (also known as ISIS). The Republican presidential nominee regularly makes belligerent statements such as “I would bomb the shit out of . . . those suckers” and “We have to knock the hell out of them.” He has said that he would send up to 30,000 more U.S. troops to fight ISIS and refuses to rule out the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the group. One might expect ISIS to view his candidacy with apprehension.
Why ISIS Is Rooting for Trump
Donald Trump has been campaigning on a promise to eradicate the Islamic State (also known as ISIS). The Republican presidential nominee regularly makes belligerent statements such as “I would bomb the shit out of . . . those suckers” and “We have to knock the hell out of them.” He has said that he would send up to 30,000 more U.S. troops to fight ISIS and refuses to rule out the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the group. One might expect ISIS to view his candidacy with apprehension.
ISIS Loses Syrian Fighters
Two years after he joined the Islamic State (ISIS), Ammar was no longer a believer. A former law student from the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, Ammar had been swept up in the 2011 protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He turned to ISIS in November 2014, after watching the revolution degenerate into a devastating civil war.
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