In Damascus, art re-emerges: 'We feel free and, at the same time, we're still afraid'
Assad's fall enabled the Zawaya Art Gallery to emerge from semi-secrecy. Filmmaker Oussama Mohammed returned from exile for a ...
Bashar al-Assad's strategy of chaos
The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...
Arutz Sheva19d
Assad's cousin who led deadly 2011 crackdown arrested
The uprising against Assad erupted in Daraa on March 15, 2011, after 15 students were arrested for allegedly painting anti-government ... a cousin of ousted leader Bashar Al-Assad, who is accused ...
The New Yorker24d
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 ...
The Independent15d
Syria through the eyes of the people who live there and their hope for what happens next
Syria's new president Ahmed al-Sharaa has vowed to “pursue the ... address to the nation since the fall of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. Certainly, Syria’s new leader has delivered a change ...
Al-Monitor10d
After sharing escape plan, Hafez Bashar al-Assad's alleged X account suspended
In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his wife Asma (C) and their children Zein, left, Karim, right, and Hafez walk ...
Al-Monitor on MSN16d
At Damascus opera house, hopes for a better future
To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took the stage with Syria's national symphony orchestra, marking the first classical concert at the Damascus opera house since president Bashar al-Assad’s ...