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Syria’s mass graves: accounting for dead is crucial for the nation to heal
By Stefan SchmittShortly after the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria in December 2024, reports emerged of mass graves being uncovered in liberated areas.Grim as such discoveries are, they should come as ...
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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 ...
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Syria's Assad dynasty falls as rebels torch founder's tomb
The tomb of Hafez al-Assad has been engulfed in flames. "The grave of the cursed dictator has been set alight," reported pro-rebel journalist Nedal al-Amari on social media. Photos published by ...
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Lessons from Syria’s volatile past for its uncertain future
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 ...
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The slow rise of Hafez al-Assad, from pan-Arabism to Syrian nationalism
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.
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Hafez al-Assad's Syria: Forging a dynasty, at any price
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 ...