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Inside the house of Assad
How did the Assads come to power? Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among them Muammar Gaddafi in ...
Time28d
The History That Syria’s New Leaders Will Need to Overcome
and the other by Salah Jadid and Hafez al-Assad, an ultra-left-wing general and the commander of the Syrian Air Forces respectively. Then Assad staged a coup in 1970, known as the Corrective ...
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Shadow Empire: Assad’s Hidden Billions and the Struggle to Reclaim Them
F or over 50 years, the Assad family ruled Syria with an iron grip, amassing a secret fortune while the country’s people endured poverty and war. The family patriarch, Hafez al-Assad, seized ...
The New York Times19d
Syria’s Alawite Minority, Favored by the Assads, Looks Nervously to the Future
Syria The walls of the mausoleum for late President Hafez al-Assad are scrawled with graffiti now — things that Syrians have long felt but could never say aloud during his family’s five-decade ...
Rebels topple largest statue of Hafez Assad in Syria
The largest statue of Hafez Assad, overlooking the Qalamoun Region in Syria, has been demolished by rebels. (AP video by ...
The Washington Post20d
In Hama, survivors of the Assad family’s first massacre can finally speak
It was in Hama that Hafez al-Assad, the father of now-deposed president Bashar al-Assad, cemented the dynasty’s brutal rule by crushing an uprising led by the Muslim Brotherhood. This month ...
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Syrian families scour hospitals and morgues for loved ones lost under Assad's rule
His question is met with silence. Whenever he or the rebels see a portrait of Bashar al-Assad or his late father Hafez al-Assad they tear it down. On one floor of the building a directive is ...
The Australian1mon
The hunt for the Assad dynasty’s missing billions begins
The chase will likely be long, if the years-long attempts to recover the wealth secreted overseas by Saddam Hussein and Muammar al-Gaddafi are ... the patriarch, Hafez al-Assad, seized power ...
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Inside the house of Assad
How did the Assads come to power? Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among them Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt – who came ...