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 ...

Thousands of civilians were killed during the massacre. Patrick Seale ... the face of one of the most oppressive regimes in modern history. The people of Hama province in Syria honored pilot Ragheed ...

The Assad regime cultivated ethnic and religious divides that threaten Syria's future even after the dynasty's fall.

From seizing power in 1970 to the Hama massacre, and Bashar inheriting power, Professor Joshua Landis joined us for an in-depth conversation on the Assad family’s rise to power.

Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values .

Hama was the site of a brutal massacre in 1982, overseen by former president Hafez al-Assad, when Syrian forces killed between 10,000 and 40,000 people, according to various estimates, in a bid to ...

In a statement, the outlet described the strike as a massacre and said the men ... tighten the noose on freedom of expression.” HAMA, Syria — For more than four decades, the Assad family ...

inhumane treatment and illegal detentions” while an officer in the Syrian army. His part in the notorious Feb 1982 massacre in the western city of Hama, in which between 10,000 and 40,000 people ...

Syria’s embassy in Lebanon suspended ... and as many as 40,000 by some estimates – in an uprising in Hama in 1982. The massacre earned Rifaat the nickname the “Butcher of Hama” and he ...

Since the fall of the Al-Assad clan, Syrians have been uncovering mass graves believed to be linked to the former regime.