When Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Sunday ... Assad and his wife have three children: Hafez, the PhD student, Zein and Karim. A 2022 US State Department report to Congress said the extended ...

Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma with their daughter Zein and sons Hafez, second right, and Karim in 2022 (Syrian Presidency Facebook page/) An investigation by Reuters revealed that Assad’s ...

“Think of North Korea,” said Belal. “That’s Syria.” Similarly, medical student Zain compared al-Assad’s regime to the Red Terror, the campaign of political repression and executions which took place ...

Local armed men are present, but not the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which spearheaded the rebel offensive against Assad. Siham Zein al-Din, who lost her son in 2014 after he defected from ...

"We came back in the hope that our home would be different to this," Syrian grandfather Omar Kafozi said — LOUAI BESHARA When Syrian grandfather Omar Kafozi returned to his house near Damascus after ...