Assad harbored Saddam Hussein’s brother who he gave over to the Allied Forces eventually, Assad allowed Jihadis to plan attacks from Syria on US Troops and allowed camps there, Syria funnels weapons and missiles to Hamas and Hezbollah. Daddy Assad helped the bombing of the US Marines in Beirut. And Syria harbored the major Nazi war criminal Brunner, assistant to Eichmann.
All of this is historic fact, reported on 10 years ago versus the mickey mouse stories of Putin supporters.
If Assad protects Christians, you coulda fooled me and ask the Christians in Beirut about it during the Lebanese civil war.
Syria created ISIS. Russia like the Regime before, have done little against ISIS. Russia has plenty of blame too.
http://www.newsweek.com/how-syrias-assad-helped-forge-isis-255631
Mohammed Al-Saud is under no illusions. “In 2011, the majority of the current ISIS leadership was released from jail by Bashar Al Assad,†he said. “No one in the regime has ever admitted this, or explained why.†Al-Saud, a Syrian dissident with the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, left Syria under threat of arrest in 2011.
But, but, but, Assad protects Christians.