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Say Cheese: Taking a Selfie With President Assad and His Wife
Say Cheese: Taking a Selfie With President Assad and His Wife
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Ordinary Syrians did not think twice before scrambling to take selfies with the country's President and First Lady during the couple's surprise visit to a... 25.04.2016, Sputnik International
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Say Cheese: Taking a Selfie With President Assad and His Wife
12:59 GMT 25.04.2016 (Updated: 13:27 GMT 25.04.2016) Ordinary Syrians did not think twice before scrambling to take selfies with the country's President and First Lady during the couple's surprise visit to a Damascus culture center.
Syrian President Bashar Assad and First Lady Asma Assad paid a surprise visit to a culture center in Damascus, in what immediately prompted citizens to start taking selfies with the couple, Sputnik's Arabic edition reported.
The culture center is located in Dummar, a neighborhood in the capital.
The couple's visit there took place on April 23, when reports emerged that Tehran had allegedly offered Assad and his family asylum in Iran from where he could safely command his army, but that Assad had refused to leave his country.
Syria has been mired in a state of civil war since 2011, with forces loyal to Assad fighting several opposition factions and extremist groups.
Unlike the West, which supports the so-called Syrian moderate opposition, Tehran and Moscow maintain that the Syrian President is the legitimate authority in the country.
