{"id":47662,"date":"2025-04-15T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/assad-defaced-syrians-destroy-a-dictators-icons\/15\/04\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:28:38","slug":"assad-defaced-syrians-destroy-a-dictators-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/assad-defaced-syrians-destroy-a-dictators-icons\/15\/04\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Assad Defaced: Syrians Destroy a Dictator\u2019s Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>As the rebels swept across Syria, symbols that had once seemed omnipresent collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>In Aleppo, a statue of one of Mr. al-Assad\u2019s brothers, Bassel al-Assad, on a horse was toppled. The horse remained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a village north of Damascus, the capital, a giant statue of the ousted leader\u2019s father, former President Hafez al-Assad, was felled.<\/p>\n<p>The statues were carried away, possibly for scrap metal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/card\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/middleeast\/syria-assad-defaced-images\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the rebels swept across Syria, symbols that had once seemed omnipresent collapsed. In Aleppo, a statue of one of Mr. al-Assad&rsquo;s<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/assad-defaced-syrians-destroy-a-dictators-icons\/15\/04\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/14\/Assad-Fader-2-66101-cover\/Assad-Fader-2-66101-cover-facebookJumbo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}