Al-Monitor16h
After sharing escape plan, Hafez Bashar al-Assad's alleged X account suspended
The son of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad posted about his family’s final days in Damascus before the rebel takeover ...
Al Bawaba News1d
Bashar Assad's son reveals details about fleeing Syria
ALBAWABA - Bashar Assad's son Hafez Assad took the internet by storm after an account claiming to be him revealed details about the family's last moment ...
Hafez al-Assad's Syria: Forging a dynasty, at any price
Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...
Bashar al-Assad's strategy of chaos
The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...
In Damascus, art re-emerges: 'We feel free and, at the same time, we're still afraid'
Assad's fall enabled the Zawaya Art Gallery to emerge from semi-secrecy. Filmmaker Oussama Mohammed returned from exile for a ...
The birth of Syria's 'state of barbarism'
The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...
“Every image was a victory against the regime”: a Syrian film-maker speaks out
The Paris-born, Damascus-raised director Soudade Kaadan reflects on life under Assad – and looks ahead with hope to a future ...
Washington Examiner9d
Syrian Civil War: What led to the fall of the regime
Hafez al-Assad, an Air Force general belonging to ... This was due in part to the Assad family putting Alawites in most positions of leadership, leading them to fear sectarian violence at the ...