For decades, statues of Hafez al-Assad symbolized power and repression. Today, they fall as Syrians reclaim public spaces ...
Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...
Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad's notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces.
Led by Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father, Syria intervened in Lebanon’s civil war in the mid-1970s and became the dominant force there for decades, particularly after the 1989 Taif Agreement ...
Supporters of the Assad regime rallied around the slogan "Assad forever." But we have now seen what happens the day after ...