‘TO HELL WITH GHOUTA’: SHOCKING LEAKED VIDEO REVEALS ASSAD’S CALLOUS RESPONSE TO GHOUTA SIEGE

Sat 06 December 2025:

Al Arabiya-released video shows ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad laughing off Ghouta with the words “to hell with it” to his advisor.

In the video, which shows al-Assad driving in an unknown location in Syria, Luna al-Shibl asks the former president: “We are about to leave Ghouta, what will we say,” to which he laughs and says: “to hell with Ghouta.”

An exclusive video obtained by Al Arabiya and Al Hadath shows a conversation between Luna al-Shibl and Bashar al-Assad while he is driving with her beside him. She asks: ‘We’re leaving Ghouta… what should we say as we leave?’ pic.twitter.com/15VCTiBPVj

— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) December 6, 2025

In June 2018, UN investigators said forces loyal to Syria’s government committed what amounted to crimes against humanity, including deliberately starving civilians, during the five-year siege of Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of the capital.

While the date of the videos is unclear, one video suggests they have been most likely recorded shortly after Damascus regained control of Ghouta in April 2018. The video shows al-Assad greeting soldiers and congratulating them as some kiss his hand and tell him “May Allah protect you.”

Al-Shibl appears to mock the soldiers, telling al-Assad: “Everyone ends up kissing the hand.”

Exclusive:
Luna al-Shibl and Bashar al-Assad mock Syrian soldiers who kissed al-Assad’s hand during his tour. pic.twitter.com/NGtTc6JAkc

— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) December 6, 2025

Al-Assad and al-Shibl also poke fun at Brigadier General Suheil al-Hassan.

Nicknamed “The Tiger,” al-Hassan led the country’s special forces and was frequently described as al-Assad’s “favorite soldier.”

Exclusive: Footage obtained by Al Arabiya and Al Hadath shows Bashar al-Assad and his adviser Luna al-Shibl mock Brigadier General Suheil al-Hassan. pic.twitter.com/RRGfEJwacQ

— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) December 6, 2025

He was responsible for key military advances by the Syrian government in 2015.

In one of the leaked videos, al-Shibl asks al-Assad if he saw al-Hassan’s photos at Mount Qasioun and calls him “the tiger of Qasioun.”

“He took photos — and he had Russian escorts with him. It wasn’t a nice sight… Standing atop Mount Qasioun, ‘Qasioun’s Tiger.’ We haven’t even finished with the ‘Lion of Diplomacy’,” al-Shibl said.

Al-Assad laughs and tells al-Shibl that if he wants to change his name, “he’d have to look for a new animal,” to which al-Shibl replies: “They are the animals.”

Exclusive:
Bashar al-Assad tells a journalist accompanying him to Ghouta: ‘We will now enter Saqba, and I’ll act as if I don’t know it has been “liberated. pic.twitter.com/80p9Gbp19H

— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) December 6, 2025

In another leaked video, al-Shibl brags about Syria’s military capabilities and downplays the street tactics of Lebanon’s Hezbollah which sent thousands of fighters to prop up al-Assad and his forces at the start of the uprising in Syria in 2011.

“We also have missiles. The Syrian army has learned and gained expertise that it can now teach to other armies. The Russians have said this. In the beginning, Hezbollah used to say, ‘We are the masters of street warfare; we can do it.’ But now they’re quiet, we no longer hear a sound from them,” she said.

Al-Shibl, who died in July 2024 after being injured in a car crash, also asked al-Assad how he feels when he sees his posters in the streets of Syria.

“An exclusive video obtained by Al Arabiya and Al Hadath shows Luna al-Shibl sitting beside Bashar al-Assad, joking with him as he drives a car: ‘What do you feel when you see your pictures in the streets?’
Assad responds, laughing: ‘Honestly, I don’t feel anything… my eyes… pic.twitter.com/JrOxddLAig

— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) December 6, 2025

“Honestly, I don’t feel anything… my eyes don’t see them, and neither does my mind,” al-Assad said.

On December 8, Syria marks a year since a lightning offensive toppled al-Assad.

#Leaked conversation between Bashar al-Assad and Luna Al-Shibl: A #video obtained by Al Arabiya shows Luna Al-Shibl asking the criminal Bashar al-Assad, “How do you feel when you see your pictures on the streets?” https://t.co/2PkEMDJ8jU pic.twitter.com/Y9NYjTgsmE

— Qusay Noor (@QUSAY_NOOR_) December 6, 2025

Following his ouster, al-Assad fled to Russia, following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 years of his family’s brutal rule.

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