Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Monday issued his first statement since his regime fell over a week ago and denied a “planned” departure from the country that his family ruled for nearly five decades. In a statement from Russia, where he fled after rebels headed by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) reached the […]
Foreign countries stepped up efforts Sunday to establish contacts with Syria’s interim rulers, a week after Islamist-led rebels sent President Bashar al-Assad fleeing to Moscow, ending decades of brutal rule. The United Nations special envoy for Syria was among those arriving in the Syrian capital, where he pressed for “justice and accountability for crimes”. “And […]
By Annabel Bate MAD Vladimir Putin has freed a murderer who strangled his girlfriend and kept her corpse inside a barrel so he can fight in the war against Ukraine. Evil Alexander Golubev, 24, was only three months into his sentence when he was freed by desperate Putin to fight after it was revealed the […]