A colossal statue of Hafez al-Assad was once a powerful symbol of Syria’s ruling regime, looming over the Damascus-Aleppo ...
Assad’s army had collapsed in Aleppo, his brother told him, unraveling in the face of insurgents who were marching towards ...
In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...