Al Jazeera on MSN12h
Russia tight-lipped on Syrian demand of al-Assad for military bases
Syrian leader al-Sharaa reportedly also demands reparations as Moscow delegation seeks to secure strategic power bases.
Saidnaya prison, a microcosm of the al-Assad regime's barbarity
Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has instilled terror in generations of Syrians: a place of ...
The New Yorker2d
A Witness in Assad’s Dungeons
A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...
Worcester Telegram on MSN3d
Opinion/Guest column: High stakes for US in wake of Syrian regime's fall
A worker tears down the pictures of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, his father Hafez al-Assad, the late Hezbollah leader Sayyed ...
Shock moment missing Austin Tice’s mother finds chilling clue in Syrian prison amid search for son held by Assad brutes
THE mom of a missing US journalist abducted by Assad’s savage regime has discovered a chilling clue about her son in a Syrian ...
For Generations, Russia Was Syria’s Main Arms Supplier, That May Be Over
It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.
Al-Monitor1d
Books banned under Assad now on sale at Damascus shops
Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...
Naharnet on MSN6d
Berri says insisting on finance portfolio not aimed at 'tripartite power-sharing'
Hekmat al-Shahabi and Hafez al-Assad in this regard. Former MP Boutros Harb, who attended the Taif meetings, has meanwhile ...
The Daily Telegraph6d
On the road with Syria’s new ‘terrorist’ leaders
Also evident in the form of a smashed up bronze statue of Hafez al-Assad, Bashir’s father, is the jubilation of the liberated people of the main town, for whom venturing up the hill into this ...
Arutz Sheva6d
A century of chaos in Syria
Eventually, Alawite air force general Hafez al-Assad seized power in 1969, supported by the ultra-nationalist Baath Party. In theory, Assad’s regime championed threefold unity—of Syria ...
On the road to Damascus: My trip through a ‘liberated’ Syria
You can’t extinguish fire with fire. You can’t address a mistake with another mistake. You have to correct the situation in ...