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15 Difficult Things About Bashar Al-Assad\\\'s Uncle Faces Embezzlement Trial In Paris.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's uncle is to be tried in Paris on charges of kidnapping his country to buy property worth at least $ 90 million in France.
82-year-old Rifat al-Assad, who denied the charges and split his time between France and Britain, said he would "not attend court for medical reasons."
The trial, which begins on Monday, is one of the most "not-for-profit" cases in France against members of foreign ruling families, whose extravagant spending and luxurious lifestyles contradict their citizens' difficulties. Teodorin Obiang, son of Equatorial Guinea's president, will appeal against his 2017 conviction and a three-year suspended sentence for corruption.
In 1982, Rifat al-Assad was called the "butcher's name" to command the forces behind the brutal and bloody action of an insurgency in central Syria. Anti-corruption agencies Sherpa and Transparency International have raised complaints.
Assad left Syria in 1984 and settled in Europe with his four wives and 16 children, the father of the current Syrian president who ruled the country from 1971 to 2000, leading a failed coup against his brother. He continued to nominate the vice president of Syria until 1998.
Between 2009 and 2011, he lived in a 10 million townhouse off Park Lane in Mayfair, but it was reported that he and his family were selling flats and a portfolio of homes in London.
His fortune includes two cities in Paris, one of which has 3,000 square meters (30,000 sq ft), a studio farm, a chatto and office space in the city of Lyon. Prosecutors hope to acquire more assets through offshore companies in Panama, Curacao, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. Spanish prosecutors said Assad and his family had more than 500 properties in Spain which were seized by authorities in 2017.
The Spanish High Court has allegedly pursued Assad and 13 others in a money laundering case, saying they acted in an "integrated manner" to conceal property acquisitions.
Assad denied the French and Spanish allegations, claiming that most of his wealth was paid to him by the Saudi royal family, and did not personally manage the acquisition or management of the property. However, the prosecution said that it had evidence to be on hand and had not given any representative. The test is expected to run until 18 December.
Assad was also tried for war crimes in Switzerland, which he condemned. In the 1980s, he led defense companies, an elite commando group suspected of killing several thousands between the 10,000 and 40,000 Syrians at Tadmore Prison near Palmyra in 1980 and Hamacacha in 1982.
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82-year-old Rifat al-Assad, who denied the charges and split his time between France and Britain, said he would "not attend court for medical reasons."
The trial, which begins on Monday, is one of the most "not-for-profit" cases in France against members of foreign ruling families, whose extravagant spending and luxurious lifestyles contradict their citizens' difficulties. Teodorin Obiang, son of Equatorial Guinea's president, will appeal against his 2017 conviction and a three-year suspended sentence for corruption.
In 1982, Rifat al-Assad was called the "butcher's name" to command the forces behind the brutal and bloody action of an insurgency in central Syria. Anti-corruption agencies Sherpa and Transparency International have raised complaints.
Assad left Syria in 1984 and settled in Europe with his four wives and 16 children, the father of the current Syrian president who ruled the country from 1971 to 2000, leading a failed coup against his brother. He continued to nominate the vice president of Syria until 1998.
Between 2009 and 2011, he lived in a 10 million townhouse off Park Lane in Mayfair, but it was reported that he and his family were selling flats and a portfolio of homes in London.
His fortune includes two cities in Paris, one of which has 3,000 square meters (30,000 sq ft), a studio farm, a chatto and office space in the city of Lyon. Prosecutors hope to acquire more assets through offshore companies in Panama, Curacao, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. Spanish prosecutors said Assad and his family had more than 500 properties in Spain which were seized by authorities in 2017.
The Spanish High Court has allegedly pursued Assad and 13 others in a money laundering case, saying they acted in an "integrated manner" to conceal property acquisitions.
Assad denied the French and Spanish allegations, claiming that most of his wealth was paid to him by the Saudi royal family, and did not personally manage the acquisition or management of the property. However, the prosecution said that it had evidence to be on hand and had not given any representative. The test is expected to run until 18 December.
Assad was also tried for war crimes in Switzerland, which he condemned. In the 1980s, he led defense companies, an elite commando group suspected of killing several thousands between the 10,000 and 40,000 Syrians at Tadmore Prison near Palmyra in 1980 and Hamacacha in 1982.
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Sunday, December 8, 2019
11:39 PM
Ethnic Cleansing is already a Reality in Turkey’s Syrian safe zone
The brutal murders are not hidden, nor are they intended. Since the beginning of Turkey's invasion of northern Syria, fighters sent across the border to carry out the mission have proudly recorded their war crimes.
Videos posted online by Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) soldiers - summary executions, mutilation of corpses, threats to the Kurds and widespread looting - have terrorized thousands of people who found themselves on the road to attack is.
The racial aspect of many crimes has resulted in mass expulsion of Kurdish and religious minorities from various fronts.
Now stranded in displaced camps throughout northeastern Syria and neighboring Iraq, they fear they will never return. And that, they believe, is definitely the point.
"Now no one can go back there, it's impossible," said Mohammad Amin, a 37-year-old Kurdish man who fled the city of Ras al-Ain with his family in the first days of the Turkish-led operation.
"We've seen the video," he told The Independent at a camp near the Syrian city of Tal Tamar. "They are burning where the Kurdish people find them."
Turkey attacked Syria
In the last two months, countless people like Amin have been telling the same story in the camp and the MakeShift Shelter. Together, they portray a picture of dramatic demographic change.
Turkey, which is described as a "safe zone" 20 miles deep and 300 miles wide, borders Syria on 9 October.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the attack was aimed at removing the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - which classified its country as a terrorist organization for its links with Kurdish separatists in Turkey .
The attack has been threatened for some time, but it only took effect when President Donald Trump suddenly withdrew the US military from the border. They are working with the SDF in Syria to fight ISIS.
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Turkey supported the operation with airstrikes, drones and artillery. Fighting at the militia's Ragtag Patchwork Ground, which was fought in the last two attacks under the command of Ankara. Some rebels have spent years trying to end President Bashar al-Assad's rule, while others have been newly appointed.
The aggression was only a few days old when the first videos were posted online. Some have shown the loot of recently evacuated homes by SNA fighters, but the first evidence of more violent war crimes has come quickly.
Kurdish Future Syria Party member Herrin Khalaf was attacked on October 12 by a civilian car while traveling on the highway between Asin Issa City and Hasaka City.
In a video posted online the next day, SNA fighters, believed to be from the Ahrar al-Sharqiya community, gathered around the car as the woman's voice rose from the back seat. Khalaf's body was later discovered by bullets and there were signs of violence. An autopsy revealed that he had a fracture in his leg and pulled his hair and was missing the rough parts of his skull.
On the same day, SNA fighters killed nine civilians on a road south of Tal Abid, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and a UK-based surveillance team.
In another video, fighters opened fire on the body of a dead man on the roadside.
6:59 PM
Several killed in Airstrikes on Iranian-Controlled Weapons Depots in Syria
Syrian media say unidentified planes bombed three Iranian-controlled arms depots on Saturday night and killed members of the Tehran-backed militia.
Some news outlets in the country said that four fighters were killed and five others in the strike. The Syrian government did not immediately release an official number.
According to the Syrian Step News Agency, the airstrikes occurred around 10 pm. Saturday, in Syria's Balkmal region, targeting three arms shops near the Iraqi border, an area that has been the site of several Israeli attacks in the past year.
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The outlet cited "well-placed resources" that the four people killed were guards in warehouses that were members of the Iranian-backed militia.
Britain's Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Monitor says at least five militants were killed in the strike.
Although, defense analysts have suggested that Israel is a potential actor, there are no immediate reports of the attack.
The Israeli military does not, as a rule, comment on specific air strikes on Syria, except for retaliation for attacks on Israel.
The new Defense Minister Nafatli Bennett (R) met the IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on 13 November 2019. (Ariel Harmony / Ministry of Defense
Defense Minister Nafatli Bennett said on Sunday that Israel was taking steps to strengthen Iran's military presence from Syria.
"We're telling the Iranians: Syria will be your Vietnam," he said, referring to the disastrous American war.
"If you do not leave, you will be forced and you will shed blood because we will work without hesitation to remove the offensive forces from Syria," Bennett said.
The attacks took place on Saturday night following reports of a similar attack in the same area.
According to Step News, an unidentified aircraft bombed another Iranian-controlled arms stock in Bolkom last Wednesday, causing a major explosion.
The outlet reported that the planes fired several missiles into the warehouses of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps at al-Hamdan airport outside Dir-Azor. The news site reported that troops on the ground carried anti-aircraft weapons on the attacking aircraft. No casualties were reported in that attack.
Satellite image of an overnight air strike at Iran's military base in Syria's Bokmal region near the Iraqi border on September 9, 2019. (Imageshot international)
Abulkamal, near the Syrian border with Iraq, is considered an important region for Iran, and it has plans to establish a land corridor to the Mediterranean Sea for easy transportation of material and fighters into the Middle East.
Three weeks after the fire between Jerusalem and Tehran, the IRGC armed cache was bombed, during which Iranian forces fired several rockets from Syria into northern Israel, and Israeli security forces launched an airstrike on Iran and Syrian military bases. Retaliated with the series.
According to the Syria War Monitor, at least 23 combatants were killed in the attacks, 16 of them Iranian. According to an Israeli official, the military believes the casualties have increased, with actual deaths expected to be close to 10.
Israel has repeatedly said that it will not accept Iran's military base in Syria and will retaliate against any attack on the Jewish state from Syria.
While it does not normally comment on specific attacks, Israel has admitted that it has conducted hundreds of airstrikes in Syria against Iranian targets over the years. Iran is in Israel's northern neighbor, Syria, and supports Hezbollah and Gaza militants.
Some news outlets in the country said that four fighters were killed and five others in the strike. The Syrian government did not immediately release an official number.
According to the Syrian Step News Agency, the airstrikes occurred around 10 pm. Saturday, in Syria's Balkmal region, targeting three arms shops near the Iraqi border, an area that has been the site of several Israeli attacks in the past year.
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The outlet cited "well-placed resources" that the four people killed were guards in warehouses that were members of the Iranian-backed militia.
Britain's Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Monitor says at least five militants were killed in the strike.
Although, defense analysts have suggested that Israel is a potential actor, there are no immediate reports of the attack.
The Israeli military does not, as a rule, comment on specific air strikes on Syria, except for retaliation for attacks on Israel.
The new Defense Minister Nafatli Bennett (R) met the IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on 13 November 2019. (Ariel Harmony / Ministry of Defense
Defense Minister Nafatli Bennett said on Sunday that Israel was taking steps to strengthen Iran's military presence from Syria.
"We're telling the Iranians: Syria will be your Vietnam," he said, referring to the disastrous American war.
"If you do not leave, you will be forced and you will shed blood because we will work without hesitation to remove the offensive forces from Syria," Bennett said.
The attacks took place on Saturday night following reports of a similar attack in the same area.
According to Step News, an unidentified aircraft bombed another Iranian-controlled arms stock in Bolkom last Wednesday, causing a major explosion.
The outlet reported that the planes fired several missiles into the warehouses of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps at al-Hamdan airport outside Dir-Azor. The news site reported that troops on the ground carried anti-aircraft weapons on the attacking aircraft. No casualties were reported in that attack.
Satellite image of an overnight air strike at Iran's military base in Syria's Bokmal region near the Iraqi border on September 9, 2019. (Imageshot international)
Abulkamal, near the Syrian border with Iraq, is considered an important region for Iran, and it has plans to establish a land corridor to the Mediterranean Sea for easy transportation of material and fighters into the Middle East.
Three weeks after the fire between Jerusalem and Tehran, the IRGC armed cache was bombed, during which Iranian forces fired several rockets from Syria into northern Israel, and Israeli security forces launched an airstrike on Iran and Syrian military bases. Retaliated with the series.
According to the Syria War Monitor, at least 23 combatants were killed in the attacks, 16 of them Iranian. According to an Israeli official, the military believes the casualties have increased, with actual deaths expected to be close to 10.
Israel has repeatedly said that it will not accept Iran's military base in Syria and will retaliate against any attack on the Jewish state from Syria.
While it does not normally comment on specific attacks, Israel has admitted that it has conducted hundreds of airstrikes in Syria against Iranian targets over the years. Iran is in Israel's northern neighbor, Syria, and supports Hezbollah and Gaza militants.
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