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...Meloni, who has in the past praised Assad, may even think he can be an ally on the refugee issue....
...Examples such as Bashar al-Assad and Gamal Mubarak, sons of Hafez al-Assad and Hosni Mubarak, the presidents of Syria and Egypt respectively, suggest this strategy was not a great success....
...Experts said the report was just the latest in a growing accumulation of evidence that President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, backed by Russia and Iran, used banned chemical weapons during the decade-long civil...
...In short order Muammer Gaddafi was toppled in Libya and Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen, while Syrians rose up against the dynastic dictatorship of the Assad family....
...The next to fall were Hosni Mubarak and Muammer Gaddafi, the longstanding leaders of Egypt and Libya....
...Libya is racked by civil war and President Bashar al-Assad’s blood-soaked Syrian regime is still entrenched in Damascus after a conflict that has shattered the country....
...In 2015, Russia’s intervention tilted the war irrevocably in Assad’s favour....
...In Syria, the Assad regime waged total war against its own people in a continuing conflict. Only Tunisia has kept aloft some of the soaring hopes of the so-called Arab Spring....
...Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at the al-Assad base in Iraq’s Anbar province and a facility in Erbil, in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, in a move that raised the spectre of a...
...Russia has long accused the White Helmets — the informal name of the group known as the Syrian Civil Defence — of being a project by western intelligence services to undermine its ally Bashar al-Assad, Syria...
...Arab Gulf states have worried about US disengagement from the region ever since the Obama administration was perceived to have dropped Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, as he faced a popular...
...Which literary character goes to Lowood school, where her friend Helen Burns dies of consumption in her arms?...
...From an Arab perspective, it was the US failure to back Hosni Mubarak during a popular uprising that ended the Egyptian president’s 30-year rule in 2011 that first triggered alarm bells....
...The group has deepened its influence in both Lebanon and neighbouring Syria since it fought alongside the regime of Bashar al-Assad during the country’s eight-year civil war....
...He said these vessels were contributing to “destabilising actions” in Syria, where Moscow supports president Bashar al-Assad’s regime in the long-running civil war....
...He gave his blessing to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Egypt....
...Newly installed President Bashar al-Assad is “pleasant but cocksure”, a study in “the banality of evil”....
...He has appeared under different names: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad (son of longtime ruler Hafez), Libya’s Seif al-Islam (son of Muammer Gaddafi), Egypt’s Gamal Mubarak (son of Hosni, the former president), and...
...By 2011, Gaddafi would be bombed by Nato and Mr Assad condemned by the EU as Syria slid into civil war....
...On November 25 2015, the US Treasury put him on its official sanctions list for “materially assisting” the Assad regime....
...Mr Glen revealed the fresh statistics in response to Helen Goodman, a shadow Foreign Office minister....
...Egyptian columnist Mona Eltahawy claimed it as the perfect anthem for the youth-backed 2011 uprising against dictator Hosni Mubarak....
...But the Kremlin regarded everything to do with the so-called Arab spring as a western threat, having “watched, in amazement, the United States pulling the plug on their Egyptian ally, Hosni Mubarak, after...
...Eid mubarak! Retail sales in the UK bounced back in June helped along by the balmy summer weather and the Muslim festival of Eid....
...A picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (C-L) walking on a street alongside officials after performing the morning Eid al-Adha prayer at a...
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