{"id":162307,"date":"2025-01-08T06:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T06:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=162307"},"modified":"2025-01-08T06:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T06:01:40","slug":"butcher-of-hama-assads-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-lebanese-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=162307","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Butcher of Hama&#8217;: Assad&#8217;s uncle Rifaat fled to Dubai, Lebanese officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An uncle of the recently ousted Syrian dictator\u00a0Bashar al-Assad has fled, via Lebanon, to the United Arab Emirates, according to Lebanese officials.\u00a0Rifaat al-Assad, known as the \u201cButcher of Hama\u201d for overseeing the violent suppression of a rebellion in the 1980s, has been accused of war crimes by Swiss prosecutors&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/middle-east\/20241227-butcher-of-hama-assad-s-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-say-lebanese-officials-syria\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An uncle of the recently ousted Syrian dictator\u00a0Bashar al-Assad has fled, via Lebanon, to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uae"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/162307-butcher-of-hama-assads-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-lebanese-officials-say.jpg",1024,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/162307-butcher-of-hama-assads-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-lebanese-officials-say.jpg",150,84,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/162307-butcher-of-hama-assads-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-lebanese-officials-say.jpg",300,169,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/162307-butcher-of-hama-assads-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-lebanese-officials-say.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/162307-butcher-of-hama-assads-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-lebanese-officials-say.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/162307-butcher-of-hama-assads-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-lebanese-officials-say.jpg",1024,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/162307-butcher-of-hama-assads-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-lebanese-officials-say.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/162307-butcher-of-hama-assads-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-lebanese-officials-say.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/162307-butcher-of-hama-assads-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-lebanese-officials-say.jpg",825,464,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/162307-butcher-of-hama-assads-uncle-rifaat-fled-to-dubai-lebanese-officials-say.jpg",590,332,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=32\" rel=\"category\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>","tag_info":"United Arab Emirates","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}