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In this2011 file photo, Rifaat Assad poses for a photographer in Paris. President Bashar Assad allowed his exiled uncle back into Syria to avoid serving a four-year prison term in France, where has spent more than 30 years, a pro-government newspaper reported late Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Syria’s Assad allows exiled uncle to return to avoid prison

By Sarah El Deeb and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 21, 2011, file photo, a Syrian soldier steps out of the burned courthouse that was set on fire by anti-government protesters in the southern city of Daraa, Syria. In March 2011, Daraa became the first city to explode against the rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Where Syria uprising began 10 years ago, dissent still rife

By BASSEM MROUE and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 21, 2011, file photo, a Syrian soldier steps out of the burned courthouse that was set on fire by anti-government protesters in the southern city of Daraa, Syria. In March 2011, Daraa became the first city to explode against the rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

In war-torn Syria, uprising birthplace seethes 10 years on

By SARAH EL DEEB and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this March 26, 2000, file photo, U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, shakes hands with Syrian President Hafez Assad, at the opening of their meeting, in Geneva, Switzerland. On Nov. 13, 1970, Assad a young career air force officer launched a bloodless coup. Fifty years later, Hafez Assad’s family still rules Syria. The country is in ruins from a decade of civil war that killed around a half million people, displaced half the population and virtually wiped out the economy. But Hafez’s son, Bashar Assad, has an unquestioned grip on what remains. (AP Photo/Laurent Gillieron, File)

In ruins, Syria marks 50 years of Assad family rule

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

This photo provided by the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and Russia's special presidential envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev, left, both wearing masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (Syrian Presidency Facebook page via AP)

US slaps sanctions on Syrian president’s eldest son

Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011 file picture, Rifaat Assad poses for a photographer in Paris. Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is going to trial in Paris, where he stands accused of illegally using Syrian state funds to build a French real estate empire.AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Syrian president’s uncle faces Paris money laundering trial

By CLAIRE PARKER - Associated Press

In this Sunday, May 4, 2014 photo, Syrian National Symphony Orchestra conductor Missak Baghboudarian, right, talks to a singer during a practice at art school which adjoins the Damascus Opera House in Damascus Syria. Two students were killed and five others were wounded when a mortar landed outside the Opera building in April 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Damascus opera suffers under mortar strikes

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

TAUBE: The case for Syrian air strikes

By Michael Taube

Syrian security forces kill 18 in new assaults

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Anti-Syrian government protesters shout slogans as they protest after Friday prayers in Damascus, Syria, Friday, March 25, 2011. Thousands of Syrians took to the streets Friday demanding reforms and mourning dozens of protesters who were killed during a violent, week long crackdown that has brought extraordinary pressure on the country's autocratic regime, activists and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

Violence erupts around Syria, protesters shot

By Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

**FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad (Associated Press)

DE BORCHGAVE: Massacres past - and future?

By Arnaud de Borchgrave - The Washington Times