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Assad family live in Russian luxury as Bashar ‘brushes up on ophthalmology’

Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household

The Guardian - UK

In Tehran, we’re asking: what is this madness achieving for the people of Iran, Israel or the US?

We are a country at war now, and while we try to restore our lives, we wonder how the Islamic republic will react to the past 12 days, says Tehran-based writer Haleh Anvari

The Guardian - UK

When I bought this handcrafted artwork in Iran, I didn’t expect it to teach me such a valuable lesson

A poetic inscription on a miniature gold tableau reminds me of what I should be striving for and, thankfully, has become far more than a decoration

The Guardian - AU

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40 Years On, Hama Survivors Recall Horror Of Assad-era Massacre

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan's rule.

International Business Times

Mass grave found near Syria’s capital could contain thousands of bodies

Burial sites are emerging across Syria after the ousting of al-Assad, accused of widespread extrajudicial killings.

Al Jazeera

US Hoping For 'Inclusive' Transition In Syria

The United States was pushing Thursday for an "inclusive" transition in Syria from president Bashar al-Assad's brutal rule, after the country's new leaders pledged to protect minority rights.

International Business Times

Middle East crisis: calls for justice as hundreds join funeral of Syrian activist who became symbol of regime brutality – as it happened

Burial procession for Mazen al-Hamada saw marchers hold signs of other missing detainees and chants for Bashar al-Assad to face trial

The Guardian - AU

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The Day Assad Fled: Joy, Fear, and the Weight of History

After years of silence, I can finally write about Syria again

The Walrus

Assad's Feared Dungeons Give Up Their Secrets

Syrians lived in terror for decades of what went on behind the concrete walls of Damascus's security compound.

International Business Times

The doctators: why are so many tyrants medically qualified?

One of the world’s worst dictators, Bashar al-Assad, apparently specialised in the eye as a doctor because he didn’t like the sight of blood

Evening Standard

Al-Assad’s ‘human slaughterhouses’: What to know about Syria’s prisons

Bashar al-Assad’s apparatus ran more than 100 detention facilities where it tortured indiscriminately.

Al Jazeera

Ebrahim Golestan obituary

Iranian writer and film-maker who was a prominent figure in the country’s new wave of cinema

The Guardian - UK

Palestinians in West Bank’s Masafer Yatta decry settler attacks

Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank denounce attacks by Israeli settlers.

Al Jazeera

Houshang Ebtehaj, prominent Iranian poet, dies at 94

Houshang Ebtehaj, a distinguished Iranian poet whose small but influential body of work made him a major figure in his own country and in world literature, has died in Cologne, Germany

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Asylum seeker father faces 10 years in Greek jail for son’s death

A 26-year-old Afghan man is charged with endangering his child’s life by taking him on a dinghy that capsized.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US State Department Reveals Assad Family’s Net Worth

The US Department of State issued a highly anticipated report to Congress on the estimated net worth and known sources of income of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family, estimated at between $1-2 billion. The report examines the finances of Bashar Assad and his wife Asma, Bashar’s brother Maher…

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