Cities across Syria have been pulverised by a decade and a half of civil war. Syrians are quite literally picking up the pieces now that Bashar al-Assad and his government have been removed. Hama ...

in addition to hundreds of volunteers from the city’s residents who carried the flag of the Syrian revolution as a symbol of the sacrifices and steadfastness of the people. Hama Governor Abdul ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan's rule. "I've never really talked ...

Hama (Syria) (AFP) – Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan's rule.

Le Monde' tracked him down in Paris. After Bashar al-Assad fled on December 8, 2024, distraught people, driven mad by years of detention and torture, emerged from the reopened Syrian prisons.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights estimates that at least 40,000 civilians were massacred in Hama by regime forces through attacks and mass executions. The locations of their graves remain unknown.

Forty-three years ago, Syria’s former Baath regime carried out one of the country’s deadliest atrocities — the 1982 Hama Massacre — killing tens of thousands and leaving thousands more ...

On February 2, 1982, amid an information blackout, Assad’s father and then leader Hafez launched a crackdown in Hama in central Syria against an armed Muslim Brotherhood revolt. The banned ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched warily. By Vivian Yee Reporting from Cairo Soon after Islamist rebels ...

Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, landed in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for his first international trip since his rebel militant group ousted former President Bashar al-Assad in December.

In December 2024, a handful of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted the brutal dictatorship that had ruled Syria for five decades and set up an interim administration. Now, foreign ...