What Syria’s risky new moment means for Syrians, leaders in the region, Turkey, Israel, and America COMMENT | STEVEN A. COOK ...
In 1994, the line of succession changed in what seemed a promising way. Basil al-Assad, the “hero” and Hafez al-Assad’s ...
Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist. He wasn’t ...
Read the original article here. On Jan. 21, 1994, Basil al-Assad was killed in what the Syrian government described as a car accident. According to official dispatches, he had been driving too ...
Assad, combined to rule Syria for more than 50 years, always with an iron fist that crushed dissent and relied on the country ...
The mullahs are moody,’ said Aisha, a female university student, explaining her daily nail varnish run in with the aging ...
Young men, some of them rebel fighters, on a giant statue on Wednesday in Aleppo, Syria, that previously depicted Basil al-Assad, former President Bashar al-Assad’s late brother, riding a horse.
On January 21, 1994, Basil al-Assad was killed in what the Syrian government described as a car accident. According to official dispatches, he had been driving too fast on the way to the airport ...