Saddam and Gaddafi, on the other hand ... These and other choices by Hafez al-Assad demoralised and alienated people from the Syrian state. It was reported Syrian soldiers on the battlefields ...
This day is unlike any other. It will leave its mark on America and the world. Neither the country nor the man at its center is ordinary. The scene is dramatic, violent, dazzling, and impactful. As ...
Russia and the former Soviet Union were long the leading suppliers of military hardware to Syria under the rule of recently deposed President Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez, who died in 2000.
People celebrate, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad, at Majdal Anjar in Bekaa, ...
SA's voting record on Syria reveals a troubling pattern of inaction, shielding Assad's regime amidst widespread human rights ...
Matveeva, who briefly met Hafez al-Assad in 2019 at a cultural event in Damascus ... while preventing his fate from mirroring that of Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi. The second reason Russia grants ...
Rifaat, in his late 80s, was brother to Assad's father, the late president Hafez al-Assad, and led elite forces that crushed a 1982 Muslim Brotherhood uprising in the city of Hama, killing more ...
Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.
Bouthaina Shaaban, a former translator for deceased Syrian president Hafez al-Assad and long-time political adviser to his son Bashar al-Assad, was similarly able to pass through Beirut airport ...
Rifaat al-Assad led forces that crushed Syrian revolt in 1982 Switzerland charged him with crimes against humanity BEIRUT, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader ...