The Manhattan Mercury6d
40 years on, Hama survivors recall horror of Assad-era massacre
Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...
The New Yorker10d
A Witness in Assad’s Dungeons
A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...
The slow rise of Hafez al-Assad, from pan-Arabism to Syrian nationalism
Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...
Egypt fears Syria’s revolutionary fervour could be contagious
After years of economic misery, discontent with the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could explode into protest in Egypt ...
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40 years on, Hama survivors recall horror of Assad-era massacre
Forty-three years later, Bashar al-Assad's ouster opened the way to ... call wanting precise figures on how many soldiers, Muslim Brotherhood" and civilians had been killed, she said.
Egypt Fears Syria’s Revolutionary Fervor Could Be Contagious
Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...