Middle East Eye2d
'Likely forged' documents circulate claiming Asma al-Assad was MI5 spy
Documents circulating on social media claiming Syria's former first lady Asma al-Assad was a spy for British intelligence ...
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Inside the house of Assad
How did the Assads come to power? Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among them Muammar Gaddafi in ...
PBS2d
Syria’s once-empowered Alawite minority faces uncertain future after fall of Assad
As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...
Fox News26d
Reporter's Notebook: Chronicling the Assad regime from death of the father to defeat of the son
The funeral of Bashar al-Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad. His "departure" was much more stately and calm than his son’s retreat this past week. For some 30 years, he had ruled Syria with an ...
Hebdo Ahram3d
Why Al-Assad fell
There are four main domestic reasons for the end of the half-century rule of the Al-Assad family in Syria, writes Walid M. Abdelnasser ...
Washington Examiner1mon
Syrian rebels desecrate tomb of Bashar Assad’s father
Syrian rebels have desecrated the tomb of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s father, former Syrian President Hafez al Assad. Hafez al Assad ruled Syria with an iron fist from 1970 to 2000 ...
Al Jazeera English1mon
Syria’s PM says al-Assad military collaborators to be brought to justice
amid reports that the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, the father of removed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was torched in Latakia. The tomb of Hafez, who was president from 1971 until his death in 2000 ...
Yahoo1mon
Syrian rebels burn coffin of Assad’s father
Rebel fighters surround the burning coffin of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria for 29 years - Aaref Watad/AFP via Getty Images Rebel fighters have set fire to the coffin of Bashar al-Assad’s ...
highlandernews.org3d
53 years later: The fall of Bashir al-Assad
On Dec. 13, 2024, oppositional forces declared Syria free from the regime of Bashir al-Assad – ending more than 60 years of ...
The New York Times1mon
Al-Assad Is Gone, and One Idea Fills My Brain
What is life without al-Assad? I don’t know yet. I am only three days in. I was born in the mid-1980s under the rule of Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar al-Assad, our ousted president.
AI Alarabiya1mon
Tomb of Hafez al-Assad set on fire in Syria hometown
The tomb of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez was torched in his hometown of Qardaha, AFP footage taken Wednesday showed, with opposition fighters in fatigues and young men ...
Yahoo1mon
Al-Assad’s reign is over: Who are the key players in the new Syria and who stands to gain or lose?
Syria was ruled by the al-Assad dynasty ever since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1971, who ruled the Middle Eastern country until his death in 2000. His son, Bashar al-Assad, then took over and ...