AS NEWS OF the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In Damascus, women draped in the ...
Series'The al-Assad saga' (4/4). The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the heir chose the status quo and ...
Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 3/4). Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was always to have one of his sons ...
Referencing Israeli violations of the 1974 ceasefire deal with Syria, he pledged that Damascus would abide by that agreement, and contended that the downfall of the Assad regime had ended what ...
The Syrian whistleblower known as Caesar, who documented countless cases of human rights abuses during the time of the Bashar al-Assad government, revealed himself as First Lieutenant Farid al ...
Al-Madh'an recounted how he leaked documents exposing torture and killings in prisons of the Assad regime, which the Syrian opposition toppled on Dec. 8. Originally from Daraa, he worked as the ...
Two months after the dramatic fall of Bashar Assad’s regime, Syria stands at a definitive juncture. The country, ravaged by years of brutal conflict, now faces the daunting task of rebuilding ...
Russia’s attitude toward the new Syrian government has “improved significantly” since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in December, and Damascus is weighing Moscow’s demands ...
Rebel forces in Syria have unveiled the opulent lifestyle of former President Bashar al-Assad after storming his presidential palace in Damascus. Videos circulated online show a fleet of luxury ...
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The sudden fall of Syria’s Assad regime in early December has raised an important question: Can the six million who became refugees during the 14-year civil war now go home? Officials in Turkey ...