Arrest of Assad Family Members with Forged Passports at Beirut Airport

Arrest of Assad Family Members with Forged Passports at Beirut Airport

On December 27, 2024, Syrian state television reported that Lebanese authorities detained the wife and daughter of Dureid Rifaat Assad at Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut after discovering they were carrying forged Syrian passports. Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar noted that the detaine...

Presidential Leadership Council Hosts P3+2 Ambassadors in Yemen

Presidential Leadership Council Hosts P3+2 Ambassadors in Yemen

On December 17, 2024, Rashad Al-Alimi, President of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council, welcomed ambassadors from the P3+2 group, which includes representatives from Saudi Arabia, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, France, and the United Kingdom. According to the official Yem...

Financial Times: Assad Regime Transferred Two Tons of Cash to Moscow

Financial Times: Assad Regime Transferred Two Tons of Cash to Moscow

The Financial Times reported that the ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's regime transferred approximately $250 million in cash to Moscow between 2018 and 2019, while his family secretly acquired assets in Russia. According to an analysis of banking records, the funds were delivered t...

Maher Assad's Fate Revealed After Bashar's Flight to Moscow

Maher Assad's Fate Revealed After Bashar's Flight to Moscow

Six days after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and his subsequent flight to Moscow, sources have disclosed the fate of his brother, Maher Assad, who was left behind. Maher, who commanded the Fourth Division of the Syrian Army and held significant influence within the st...

Erdogan: Assad Left Syria in Ruins and Fled

Erdogan: Assad Left Syria in Ruins and Fled

On December 9, 2024, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that the Assad regime has left Syria in a state of devastation and has "fled in shame." Speaking from Ankara, Erdogan reiterated that the regime, which has ruled through oppression, lost its legitimacy years ago. Erdog...

US Reiterates Stance on Assad, Calls Him a "Blood-Stained Dictator"

US Reiterates Stance on Assad, Calls Him a "Blood-Stained Dictator"

On Monday, December 2, 2024, the United States reaffirmed that its policy towards Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remains unchanged. In remarks to reporters, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller described Assad as a "blood-stained dictator" but declined to specify whether the...