Still, his career has been most defined by Lebanon’s civil war from 1975 to 1990, when his father, Kamal Jumblatt, was assassinated. The tall, thin, mustachioed Walid Jumblatt survived many ...

Late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad was a masterful negotiator, fiercely protective of his image and reputation. He was ...

Kamal Jumblatt, who founded the Progressive Socialist Party and opposed Assad's father Hafez over his troops' intervention in the Lebanese civil war, was killed near the Syrian border in 1977.

Jumblatt's remarks came during a rally of more than 20,000 people to mark the 1977 assassination of his father, Kamal Jumblatt, who was gunned down near a Syrian army checkpoint in the region ...

including Jumblatt's father. Kamal Jumblatt, who founded the Progressive Socialist Party and opposed Assad's father Hafez over his troops' intervention in the Lebanese civil war, was killed near the ...