US EditionInside Assad’s Collapse: Sex Obsessions, Candy Crush and the Killing of His Spy Lover
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Inside Assad’s collapse: Sex obsessions, Candy Crush and the killing of his spy lover
Atlantic journalist, citing sources in Israel, Damascus and Hezbollah, depicts Assad as arrogant, promising victory hours before collapse, then fleeing after Russians said it was over; his lover Luna al-Shibl became a Russian agent and was later found dead
Sex, drugs and 'Candy Crush': Secrets of Assad’s palace revealed
Syrian officials and military officers told The Atlantic that the key factor behind the collapse of the regime in Damascus in December 2024 was the ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad himself. The figures, who frequented the presidential palace in Damascus in recent years, told journalist Robert Worth that Assad was a detached ruler, obsessed with sex and video games, who could apparently have saved his regime at any point over the last five years i…
Testimony from former sources in the Damascus palace paints a portrait of a ruler who ignored reality, believed everything revolved around him, and fled his country when the regime collapsed.
According to a comprehensive article by The Atlantic magazine, based on former senior officials in the regime of exiled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the president did not believe that his regime would collapse until the very last hours before the capture of Damascus, on December 8, 2024. According to the report, the day before the fall of the regime, as rebel forces closed in on Damascus, Assad reassured his aides and claimed that victory w…
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