| This was confirmed in May 2008, by a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister | In 2014, journalist and terrorism expert maintained, citing Syrian records captured by the U |
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| jurisdiction and generally bars U | Cambanis, Thanassis 14 December 2007 |
from the original on 14 January 2015.
| In the months leading to the assassination, relations between Hariri and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad plummeted amid an atmosphere of threats and intimidation | Syria completed its full withdrawal from Lebanon on 30 April 2005 |
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| Since 2006, the Assad government has expanded the use of against political dissidents | His father, , was the president of Syria before him, serving from 1971 to 2000 |
Once seen by many states as a potential reformer, the , the , and the majority of the called for Assad's resignation from the presidency in 2011 after he ordered a violent crackdown on protesters, which led to the.
10| [ ] Bashar is an Alawite Muslim | |
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| In a separate e-mail leak several months later by the , which were published by , it was revealed that Assad's consultants had coordinated with an Iranian government media advisor | " 27 June 2015 at the " |
" In September 2015, France began an inquiry into Assad for , with French Foreign Minister stating "Faced with these crimes that offend the human conscience, this bureaucracy of horror, faced with this denial of the values of humanity, it is our responsibility to act against the impunity of the killers".
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