The longest-serving political prisoner under the regime is now revered as a hero. ‘I was always free here,’ he declares, ...
Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad on the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the dictator who ordered Fayyad's imprisonment ...
The father is Hafez al- Assad- the man who got away with the original Hama Massacre of 1982; and the son, his very own al-Assad Junior, encumbant President Bashar al-Assad. Wikileaks magicked up ...
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Hama massacre survivors break 40-year silenceWe used to feel that the walls could hear us, and could write reports on us.Iman Al Alwani, Hama massacre ...
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Factbox-Syria's sects: delicate mix for its new Islamist leadersThe late Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, became the most powerful Alawite when he seized control of the country in a 1970 coup after rising within the ostensibly secular Baath Party. - The ruling ...
Many of Syria's Sunnis, who make up more than 70% of the population, felt politically and economically marginalized by Bashar ...
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