A train station was once the pride of Syria’s capital. Some see it as a symbol of revival after war
A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...
Syrians celebrate a month since Assad’s overthrow with revolutionary songs in Damascus
A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the ...
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Syria’s once-empowered Alawite minority faces uncertain future after fall of Assad
As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both ...
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In Assad's hometown, few shared in his family's fortune. They hope they won't share in his downfall
QARDAHA, Syria — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals have sprayed variations of the phrase, “Damn your soul, Hafez.” ...
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Now Syria's long-ruling Baath party is collapsing, too
FILE.- An opposition fighter steps on a broken bust of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8, 2024. Credit: AP/Hussein Malla The Baath party, whose aim was to ...
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Syria’s Alawite Minority, Favored by the Assads, Looks Nervously to the Future
By Raja Abdulrahim Photographs by Ivor Prickett Reporting from al-Qardaha, Syria The walls of the mausoleum for late President Hafez al-Assad are scrawled with graffiti now — things that Syrians ...
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Now Syria's long-ruling Baath party is collapsing, too
A rivalry developed between the Syrian branch under Assad and his late father, Hafez, and the one in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, who was removed from power by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003.