While a cleric recited the prescribed prayers for a martyr ... a family tradition that went back to the time of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father. Hafez seized power in 1970, and built a ...

“It’s not only the word of prayer,” he said ... Since 2011, he and Omran had been living in exile in Paris. After Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell in December, Mohammed said, his wife ...

Drinking an espresso, he inhales deeply on a cigarette as the call to prayer sounds from the neighbouring ... I’m Alawite, same as Bashar al-Assad,” says Ali, a cybersecurity consultant.

As Damascus celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syrians living in the Quneitra ... (using the microphone he normally uses to call for prayer, editor’s note) to tell everyone to leave.

By Raja Abdulrahim Photographs by Ivor Prickett Reporting from Idlib, Taftanaz and Aleppo, Syria Bashar ... Ahmed al-Shara, the head of the rebel alliance that overthrew the Assad government ...

Languages: English and Farsi Inside Syria's infamous prisons once controlled by Bashar al-Assad, haunting graffiti ... Others left prayers, such as "Oh Lord, bring relief" and "Patience is ...

The rebel-led collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the release of ... in which the journalist can be heard reciting an Arabic prayer and saying “Oh, Jesus,” was the last direct ...

Bashar al-Assad’s army was hollowed out by corruption ... and fell to my knees in prayer, overwhelmed by returning to a city I thought I would never again see in my lifetime, along a road ...

In the 1990s, he advised Basel al-Assad, Bashar’s older brother ... Many came for the Friday prayer and to celebrate, but countless others came for the food handed out for free: small plastic bowls of ...

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik on July 25, 2024, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad meets with Russian president at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 24 ...

Thousands of Palestinians offered Friday prayers at the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque Friday despite the military restrictions placed on entry by the occupation authorities. About 40,000 individuals ...