Hafez al-Assad was one of ... Syria aligned itself with the Soviet Union (as it then was), although it was mostly pragmatic ...

Syria established diplomatic relationship with the Soviet Union in 1944 and became the ... began moving away from the Soviet orbit in the 1970s, Hafez al-Assad’s regime in Syria remained a ...

TYRANT Assad’s desperate final plea to Putin and his nerve-racking wait to be smuggled into Russia have been revealed. The ...

The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ...

Hafez al-Assad is welcomed in Moscow by Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in 1971. Bettmann/Corbis Syrians gather outside Deraa’s main courthouse, which was set on fire by demonstrators demanding ...

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 ...

Russia and the former Soviet Union were long the leading suppliers of military hardware to Syria under the rule of recently ...

BASHAR al-Assad packed ... Syria closely with the Soviet Union, and an anti-Israel stance. He established a cult of personality and corruption flourished as loyalty to Hafez became the most ...

Hafez al-Assad ... itself with the Soviet Union (as it then was), although it was mostly pragmatic in its dealings with the US and Israel. A personality cult was built around Assad.

Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among ... Syria aligned itself with the Soviet Union (as it then was), although it was mostly pragmatic in its dealings with the US and ...