Rounding a traffic circle, he struck a barricade, and the car flipped several times. Bassel al-Assad was 31. There is a story told, not confirmed, but believable. I will tell it, as long as the ...
A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...
He staffed the military high command with fellow Alawites, in a majority Sunni country. Bassel al-Assad was being groomed to be his successor until a deadly 1994 car crash. The death of the ...
When Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria, merchants like Youssef Rajab kept much of their imported stock hidden for fear of arrest ...
Assad’s government kept a firm grip on foreign currency dealings ... “The economy in the future Syria will be free and ...
THE mom of a missing US journalist abducted by Assad’s savage regime has discovered a chilling clue about her son in a Syrian ...
Assad's government kept a firm grip on foreign ... be free and competitive," the interim government's Economy Minister Bassel Abdel Hanan told reporters. He said the new authorities would ...
Her organization Nophotozone, which she co-founded with her late husband Bassel Khartabil Safadi, represents 3,500 Syrian families whose loved ones were arbitrarily detained by the Assad government.
Assad's top-secret conversations with Putin ... Bashar was not the first choice to succeed his father, with his elder son Bassel groomed to take over the role. Bashar was working as an ...