The anti-corruption radio DJ who defied Assad
With pills to calm his heart and CCTV monitoring his stairs, one man set out to hold politicians, police and even regime ...
Foreign Policy21d
What Will Happen to Assad’s Secret Drug Empire?
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Ya Libnan News23d
Syria’s Alawite community refuses to pay for Assad’s crimes
“Many regime war criminals were Sunnis: Ali Mamlouk, the intelligence chief; Asma, Bashar’s wife; Moustapha Tlass, the former defence minister … Bashar al-Assad behaved like a monster not ...
World Politics Review24d
China Will Approach Post-Assad Syria With Caution
As a result, in today’s post-Assad Syria, China faces complicated dilemmas. But depending on how developments unfold and how the West ultimately approaches the new powers that be in Damascus ...
CounterPunch24d
The Drought That Felled Assad
The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ended up undoing the Assad regime in Syria and ...
France 2424d
'Syrian above all': The Alawite community refuses to pay for Assad's crimes
"Many regime war criminals were Sunnis: Ali Mamlouk, the intelligence chief; Asma, Bashar’s wife; Moustapha Tlass, the former defence minister ... Bashar al-Assad behaved like a monster not ...
The New York Times26d
Syria Confronts an Immense Challenge: Justice for Assad Regime Crimes
By Vivian Yee Reporting from Cairo There seem to be no limits to the dark revelations laid bare by the downfall of Syria’s 54-year Assad regime. Prisons have emptied, exposing the instruments of ...
The Hill26d
With Assad out of the way, will Iran choose realpolitik?
A former al Qaeda affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, seized the moment (along with other rebel groups) for a long-awaited assault on Assad — securing the fall of the Assad regime within 10 days.
Yahoo27d
Assad loyalist tied to a tree and shot in the head in public execution
Mazen Kneneh, believed to be the mayor of Dummar, was one of the most infamous loyalists of the Assad regime An Assad loyalist was executed in public by fighters linked to the country’s new ...
Qalampir27d
Asma – Assad’s spy wife
Asma al-Assad would not be allowed entry into the UK following the fall of Damascus. In another notable development, on December 27, Lebanese authorities arrested Bashar al-Assad’s cousin, Duraid ...
Al Jazeera English29d
Syrians mark a month since al-Assad’s overthrow with concert in capital
It’s been a month since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, ending more than five decades of his family’s rule in Syria and almost 14 years of civil war. Al-Assad escaped to Russia on December 8 ...
Newsweek29d
Putin 'Stopped Taking Calls' From Bashar al-Assad Before Coup: Report
Vladimir Putin allegedly "stopped taking calls" from the former Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, before he was ousted by rebels in December, according to a former aide. Kamel Saqr, who ...