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4 days ago · Amid reports of massacres and indiscriminate violence by security forces, Assad maintained that his country was the victim of an international conspiracy to instigate sectarian warfare in Syria and that the government was engaged in combating networks of armed insurgents rather than peaceful civilian protesters.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · Those killed in the blast include Assef Shawkat, Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law and one of his closest advisers, and Daoud Rajiha, the minister of defense. Syrian state media claim that the attack was conducted by a suicide bomber.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · He was promoted to NSB head in 2012 after an attack on the bureau's headquarters in which his predecessor, Hicham Ikhtiar, was killed, along with deputy defence minister Assef Shawkat, who was also Bashar Al Assad's brother-in-law.
3 days ago · The person also allegedly claimed that the driver of the 'armored vehicle' that hit Luna's car was the commander Basil Assef Shawkat. Another theory claims that Luna Shabal was planning to escape ...
4 days ago · Assef clearly refers to the way that Hassan, because he is not a Pashtun, is something of a corrupting influence that threatens the supposed purity of Afghanistan. As a result, he clearly behaves...
3 days ago · Early life Family Main article: Al-Assad family Hafez was born on 6 October 1930 in Qardaha to an Alawite family of the Kalbiyya tribe. His paternal grandfather, Sulayman al-Wahhish, gained the nickname al-Wahhish (wild beast) for his strength. Hafez al-Assad's parents were Na'sa Shalish and Ali al-Assad. His father married twice and had eleven children. Hafez was his ninth son and the fourth from his second marriage. By the 1920s Ali was respected locally and initially opposed to the French ...
3 days ago · Shakib Khan is widely regarded as one of the most popular and influential actors in Bengali cinema. He is often referred to as "King Khan" and "King of Dhallywood" also referred as "Number One Shakib Khan" (initialism as No1SK) (in reference to his 2010 film Number One Shakib Khan ).
