The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...
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 ...
The war artist-reporter and founder of Action Syria returns to the streets of Damascus and Aleppo 12 years on from when he was last there. Here, he captures the stories of the people he meets and thei ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syria’s newly-appointed President Ahmed al-Sharaa discussed deepened security ties ...
A former minister under ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has turned himself in, the interior ministry said Tuesday, ...
In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...
The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...
The retired public servant recalled how the elite Defence Brigades headed by Rifaat al-Assad had moved in on their ...
When they entered our neighborhood, they took our young men,' Muazzez Kerricha tells Anadolu, breaking decades of silence on ...