Luxury Homes, Millionaire heritage... that's the New Life of Syrian Al Assad in Putin's 'Golden Cage' a Year After He Was Overthrown

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After 14 years of Civil War, Syria tries to rise from the ruins. Bashar al-Assad, who held all power for two decades (his father Hafez did it for almost three years), sees him from afar. The dictator fled as soon as he heard the arrival in Damascus of the jihadists and rebels who now hold power in the person of Ahmed al-Shara, the interim president. Al-Assad (60 years old) took the first plane he found and left for Russia, the old ally of his re…

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Syria continues to advance after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa promised to mark the beginning of “a new dawn” as the country seeks to overcome the numerous challenges to its stability and recovery, a year after Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow. Sharaa’s radical Islamist alliance launched a lightning offensive at the end of November last year and took Damascus on December 8, suddenly ending more than five decad…