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Syrian dictator President Bashar Al-Assad’s family is likely worth $1-2 billion, the US State Department said on Thursday, despite American-led efforts to isolate him over his brutality towards his people during Syria’s ongoing war. In a report required by Congress, the State Department said it could only provide an “inexact estimate”, with the Assads believed to hold assets under fictitious names or through opaque property dealings. “Estimates based on open-source information generally put the Assad family net worth at between $1-2 billion,” said the publicly released part of the report, some…