Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from ...

The thumbnail illustration for a Shiite propaganda song that depicts Sharaa as a devil ... Maliki remarked that those who assumed power in Syria after Assad’s fall were once prisoners in Iraq—a direct ...

A banner held up in the hall read “It is Syria the Great, not Syria the Assad”. One of Maasarani’s best known songs is Jabeenak ’Ali w Ma Bintal, which he first sang in 2012, addressing ...

Bashar al-Assad, the president of 24 years ... too – many are greeted by a band playing traditional songs with a giant drum. Syrian journalist Mohammad Ghannam is one of them.

The musicians were four Syrian men who had been through hell and ... The musicians performed songs of pain and hope written while in detention. When Bashar Assad’s government fell in 2024, Sednaya was ...

They also forced their detainees to sing the song Hotel California ... fought. Syria was then a military quagmire. The peaceful revolution of 2011 against Bashar al-Assad quickly degenerated ...

President Trump lashed out yesterday at President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine after he rejected a U.S. plan to end the war with Russia. “He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years ...

This was the first week of Syria’s transformation after ... TV stations didn’t miss a beat, flipping from praising Assad to playing revolutionary songs. State media aired the flurry of ...

The Syria Trust for Development, led by then First Lady Asma al-Assad, partnered with the Aga ... Ali al-Wawi, a former market porter, sang the famous song "Al-Rozana," which came from the ...

The president will attend a fundraiser and a showing of Les Misérables at an institution he hopes to remake in his image.

Inside the shrine, a sleepy courtyard centred around a now dry fountain is silent, but the chirping of caged doves sounds a song supposed ... Al-Assad due to his open defiance of the Baathist regime.