Inside the abandoned homes of Assad's ruthless enforcers
Jamil Hassan, referred to as "the butcher" by people who lived on his street, is among the senior regime figures who have ...
Syrian rebel fighters set fire to tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father
Images show the fighters standing next to the burning gravesite of Hafez al-Assad in the former president's hometown.
Bashar al-Assad, an Ophthalmologist Who Became a Dictator, Is the Last of a Despotic Dynasty
Once a self-styled modernizer, Syria’s president bought time with a harsh crackdown, but his government eventually succumbed ...
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Who is Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader whose family ruled with an iron fist for more than 50 years?
Bashar al-Assad was then thrust into the national spotlight and studied military science, later becoming a colonel in the ...
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Syrian rebels desecrate tomb of Bashar Assad’s father
Syrian rebels have desecrated the tomb of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad ... fighter in military uniform stands next to a broken bust of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad, with a pair ...
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Assad regime falls in Syria as rebels take Damascus
Bashar al-Assad took the reins upon ... on social media appear to show Syrian military members putting up minimal resistance and discarding their uniforms as rebel forces approached the city.
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How Syria’s Bashar al-Assad fell so quickly — and what the U.S. should do next
According to Gopal, three external factors loomed large. Under Assad, Syria’s biggest regional benefactor was Iran, but since the Oct. 7 attacks, it has withstood Israeli military strikes and watched ...
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Bashar al-Assad Is the Last of a Despotic Dynasty
Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. Born in Damascus, the younger Assad was just 5 years old when ...
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Syrian rebel fighters set fire to tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father
Some military uniforms were lying on both sides of the ... Blinken and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan's meeting comes after Bashar al-Assad's regime was toppled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ...