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Tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father set alight after Syrian rebel victory
The tomb of the former Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad has been set alight, according to numerous reports, just days after an uprising swept his son Bashar from power. Images taken from Qardaha ...
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Bashar Assad, the second-choice dictator who could never fill his father’s shoes
The humiliating collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime, with the unloved dictator forced to flee as a baying Islamist mob overran the presidential palace in Damascus ...
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Syrian rebel fighters set fire to tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father
Images show the fighters standing next to the burning gravesite of Hafez al-Assad in the former president's hometown.
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Syrians topple and trample on statues of Assad's father
Syrians around the country on Sunday toppled and trampled on statues of President Bashar al-Assad's late father Hafez, who founded the brutal system of government that his son inherited.
The New Yorker10d
A Witness in Assad’s Dungeons
A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...
Al-Monitor6d
40 years on, Hama survivors recall horror of Assad-era massacre
Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...
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Long silenced by fear, Syrians now speak about rampant torture under Assad
They made his father watch and taunted him about his son’s torment. That was 2012, and the entire security apparatus of Syria’s then-President Bashar Assad was deployed to crush the protests ...