HAMA, Syria — For more than four decades ... they understood that Hama was a byword for massacre, and a warning that death or imprisonment were the price of dissent. Before the notorious ...
More than four decades ago, Hafez Assad, then president of Syria, launched what came to be known as the Hama Massacre. Between 10,000 to 40,000 people were killed or disappeared in the government ...
Syria's fourth-largest city, Hama, which the army on Thursday admitted it lost control of after an Islamist-led rebel advance, was the scene in the 1980s of a massacre that remains among the ...
Jailed for rejecting Assad’s orders during Hama’s massacre, Al-Tatari's release after 43 years marks the resilience of human ...
BEIRUT — Syrian insurgents entered the central city ... The city’s name is known for the 1982 massacre of Hama, one of the most notorious in the modern Middle East, when security forces ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian insurgents swept into the central ... The city is known for the 1982 massacre of Hama, one of the most notorious in the modern Middle East, when security forces under ...
Aron Lund, a longtime Syria expert at Century International, a New York-based think tank, said Hama has obvious symbolic value because of the history of the massacre. He described it as a “huge ...
Aron Lund, a longtime Syria expert at Century International, a New York-based think tank, said Hama has obvious symbolic value because of the history of the massacre. He described it as a “huge ...
BEIRUT (AP) — One of the darkest moments in the modern history of the Arab world happened more than four decades ago, when then-Syrian President Hafez Assad launched what came to be known as the ...