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A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on dissent.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh told border agents her respect for Hassan Nasrallah is spiritual, not political. But the two are ...
Back in 1971 the Assad family seized power through military force and quickly began suppressing the population, silencing dissent by imprisoning or killing anyone who challenged their authority ...
Assad's 24-year rule ended abruptly as a coalition of rebel forces, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a rapid ...
A Syrian doctor who had practised in Germany was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday for crimes against humanity and war crimes after he was found guilty of torturing ...
A workaholic doctor thought her extreme back pain was just stress-related when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, a rare cancer that affects your bone marrow and blood. Doctors say the ...
Instead, Assad, the second son of former Syrian ruler Hafez Assad, planned to be an ophthalmologist. He studied in Syria and then London before his career as an eye doctor was cut short by his ...
Bashar al Assad was not meant to be president, but a twist of fate forced the former eye doctor - and his London-raised wife - to head back to Syria to continue a family dynasty.
A German court on Monday handed a life sentence to a Syrian doctor who tortured opponents of former ruler Bashar al-Assad during the country's brutal civil war. The higher regional court in Frankfurt ...
Eye doctor and computer geek Before Damascus, Assad was an eye doctor in London and his only official position in his home country was as head of the Syrian Computer Society. In the UK capital, he met ...