Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...
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Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...
The fall of the authoritarian government of Bashar Assad in Syria to rebel fighters came swiftly and unexpectedly, but AP’s ...
What was a stalemate has revealed that the regime of President Bashar al Assad may very well be standing on clay feet. Whether the rebel push continues its momentum and transforms into a wider ...
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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday ... was head of the Syrian Computer Society. His wife, Asma al-Akhras, whom he married several months after taking office ...