President Bashar al-Assad has left Syria behind, fleeing to Russia with his family and leaving his once-impenetrable Damascus mansion to be ... Assad’s now-abandoned Presidential Palace, known ...
The abandoned mansion was rebuilt during the second half of the 18th ... When the war ended, the château was used as offices for the NKVD, the Soviet Secret Police. It was during this post-war period ...
President Bashar al-Assad has left Syria behind, fleeing to Russia with his family and leaving his once-impenetrable Damascus mansion to be ransacked by ... Assad’s now-abandoned Presidential Palace, ...