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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 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