Syria’s ousted dictator Bashar Assad fled to Moscow when he was driven from power and has reportedly settled into a new life as a celebrity ophthalmologist since his usefulness to the Russian government has come to an end.

Bashar Assad received a degree from Damascus University in Syria and practiced at an eye hospital in London before the death of his father Hafez in the year 2000 brought him back to inherit his family’s cruel throne. Western critics marveled at the contrast between the brutality of the younger Assad’s regime and his medical oaths, while dissidents in Damascus taunted “The Doctor” and predicted he would be the next strongman…

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