Chloe Hadjimatheou
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3,299 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 27 Aug
Chloe Hadjimatheou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Some commentators in the Arab media noted that asthma's video came just a couple of months after the British royal Kate Middleton announced her cancer diagnosis in her own video.
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They speculated about whether asthma hoped to get similar global sympathy and attention.
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She might not be on the cover of Vogue anymore, but while Syria was out of the headlines, the couple were trying to rehabilitate themselves.
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By that autumn the world was distracted with wars in Gaza and Ukraine and with Trump's re election.
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So no one saw it coming.
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In just over a week, the jihadist rebel group Hayat Tariir al-Sham or HTS carried out a coordinated offensive starting in northwest Syria.
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They rapidly pushed south through Aleppo, Hama and Homs, and on December 7th, they reached the capital Damascus.
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The speed of it caught everyone off guard.
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It's a moment that will be etched into the memory of every Syrian, the ones who stayed and the ones who had to leave.
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including Sarah, our producer, who'd been away for more than 13 years, got in a car with a friend the day after, and crossed the border back home.
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Me and Sarah are just two of many, many journalists who've tried to piece together what happened, how the regime collapsed so quickly, what went on in the chaos and what was missed.
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And rightly most of the world was focused on Bashar al-Assad and his escape to Moscow.
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And then clues began to emerge.
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Weeks after they got there, Bashar and Asma's oldest son, Hafez Jr., posted a video on social media.
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He was walking near the Kremlin in Moscow and talking into his camera, warning his followers that there were some fake social media accounts in his name.
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But he also posted on Telegram a long explainer of how the family had left Syria.
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He and his dad Bashar, he said, had no intention of fleeing.
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But then, on the night of Saturday, the 7th of December, a Russian official came to their home in the Al Malki district in the center of town and warned them that they needed to get out of the capital.
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They arrived at the coastal town of Latakia in the early hours of Sunday the eighth, but were told to move again, this time to a Russian military base.
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And when that base came under attack, he said they were bundled into a plane to Moscow.
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