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He was also said to suffer from depression. Though officially he was an engineer and a married man, the Assads and the Syrian press kept a radio silence on his personal life. He was almost never mentioned—or seen—in public.

The youngest of the Assads, Maher pursued a career in the military even as a student at Damascus University. His shady connections surfaced in , for example, when a radio station called Voice of Lebanon played recordings in which he purportedly ordered the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister. His involvement in the crime remains nebulous. Accounts of his death or dismemberment have circulated constantly in Syria since the uprisings began. In , he was said to have lost a leg in one bombing; in July of this year, another was said to have killed him.

He is likely alive, directing the military from a clandestine location, his condition unknown. Well said future President! Most of what we do know about them is from family and PR photographs.

The Assads blow out birthday candles. Zein sports a Hello Kitty jacket at a rally. Karim rolls a toy truck with his father. Mimi Dwyer is a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. Follow her at dvdwyer. You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser and improve your visit to our site. The development allocation is a joke. There is effectively not enough money left in the state coffers to rebuild destroyed homes, repair roads or maintain the schools.

The grandiose plans for rehabilitating the country require hundreds of billions of dollars, fantastical amounts. It is impossible to predict who will agree to provide that money to the Syrian regime, especially when there is no diplomatic solution visible on the horizon. It appears that the dreadful humanitarian situation in Syria is of no interest to anyone.

President-elect Joe Biden has thus far not presented any action plan to rescue it or any intention to intervene in Syria, apart from his opposition to withdrawing the American forces deployed there to protect the Kurds.

The single rescue path that might help Assad is in fact the Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, which could see the crisis in Syria as an opportunity to restore Assad to the bosom of the Arab world and to detach him from the Iranian teat. Zvi Bar'el Dec. Get email notification for articles from Zvi Bar'el Follow.

Bibi gets immunity — just not the kind he really wants. Play audio. Open gallery view. Internally displaced Syrians warm themselves around a fire at a camp in the Northern Aleppo countryside, Syria, December 17, Shoppers walk past shops in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, December 20, A drone picture shows a camp for displaced Syrians near the town of Kafr Lusin by the border with Turkey, in Syria's rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib, December 15, Policy Analysis PolicyWatch May 22, Also available in Arabic.

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