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 ...

The Syrian army said it redeployed from Hama ... 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 under Assad's ...

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 ...

The startling advance of Syria’s opposition in a week is ... parts of its history – respectively the 1982 massacre of 20,000 in Hama, or the 2012 siege and then starvation of Homs, or the ...

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 ...

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 ...