Mother to son: "If your father were still alive, we would not be in this mess." The father is Hafez al- Assad- the man who got away with the original Hama Massacre of 1982; and the son ...

For decades, schoolchildren began their day with a song of praise to Hafez al-Assad, “our eternal leader.” He died in 2000. He was succeeded by his son Bashar, who received similar praises.

Al Quds Al Arabi reported that “an actual war has erupted” in Jableh’s countryside, particularly along the M1 international highway ... forces and Assad loyalists near the naval college in Jableh and ...

Syria’s security forces arrested a former intelligence chief Thursday who is accused of carrying out hundreds of assassinations under ex-regime leader Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian news agency SANA ...