From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the center East, this groundbreaking account from the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of the 21st-century humanitarian disaster. In spring 2011, Syrian Leader Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and military commander, Manaf Tlass, for assistance about how to respond to Arab Spring-inspired protests. Tlass forced for conciliation but Assad made a decision to crush the uprising — an take action which would catapult the united states about Assad or We Burn the united states: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria into an eight-year long war, killing nearly half of a million and fueling terrorism and a global refugee crisis.

Assad or We Burn the united states examines Syria’s tragedy through the generational saga from the Assad and Tlass households, once deeply intertwined and now estranged in Bashar’s bloody search to conserve his father’s inheritance. By drawing on his own reporting knowledge in Damascus and exclusive interviews with Tlass, Dagher requires readers within palace walls to reveal the family behind the devastation of a nation and the chaos of a whole area.

Dagher displays how one of the world’s most vicious police states had become and explains how a regional turmoil extended globally, engulfing the center East and pitting the United States and Russia against each other.

Timely, propulsive, and expertly reported, Assad or We Burn the Country may be the definitive account of the global crisis, going considerably beyond the news story which has dominated headlines for a long time.