The posts drew public interest, as Droubi has largely stayed out of the public eye. Suriye Geçiş ... Droubi family, Ghazi al-Droubi, served from 1984 to 1987 as Syria’s minister of oil and resources ...

Half of the city had been destroyed,” he told Middle East Eye. “These neighbourhoods ... By the early 80s, Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father, had staged a coup of his own within the Baath ...

37 years after it had been banned during the reign of Hafez al-Assad, the clan's patriarch. "There were major cinema events before the Baath [then the sole party in power] destroyed the tradition ...

After the fall of the Assad regime, displaced Syrian women are feeling more hopeful. But there is still plenty of uncertainty in Syria's postwar future. The post Displaced Syrian Women Are ...

The son of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad posted about his family’s final days in Damascus before the rebel takeover ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 3/4). 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 always to have one of his sons ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 1/4). Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the pan-Arab ideological movement.

At the heart of Hafez al-Assad’s rise to power was Mohamed Deeb Daboul (known as Abu Saleem), a close confidant and office secretary of the late Syrian president since the late 1960s. Daboul was born ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (4/4). The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the heir chose the status quo and ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 2/4). The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, at any price. Winter 1986 ...

In 1970, Hafez al-Assad took power in Syria after a coup he dubbed the “Corrective Movement.” This was after years of intense conflict within the Baath Party, beginning with the 1961 coup ...