Voice of America footage still: large Bashar al-Assad banner on a tower during the rebel advance (Aleppo, 2 December 2024)
A tall office tower under a clear sky carries a vertical banner of a man in a green suit standing with one arm raised, running down much of its front. A Syrian flag with two green stars is draped down the building's side, and power cables cross the foreground. The tell is the scale: a leader's image sized to the building, photographed while the government was losing control of the city.
Propaganda techniques used in this photograph
- Date
- December 2, 2024
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Syrian government (banner issuer not named); still from Voice of America footage
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Syria
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Ba Athist Syria
- Leader
- Bashar al Assad
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Syrian Civil War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US government work, Voice of America), via Commons
Voice of America, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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