with regular neighborhoods often bearing the brunt of regime retaliation when rebel forces come to town. Kids are witnesses to the violence, and the victims of it too. Images of dead children sometimes fuel the anti-Assad media campaigns. “Gift from Assad ...
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mothers clutch their children in tight embraces, while the children, clearly exhausted, lag behind, their feet dragging on the ground. The young ones, in the meantime, are burdened with as many luggage and plastic bags as they can manage. ...
Father:Hafez Assad, late Syrian President Mother:Anisa Makhlouf al-Assad Marriage:Asma (Akhras) al-Assad(2000-present) Children:Karim, Zein and Hafez Education:University of Damascus, Medicine, 1988; Ophthalmology residency, London, 1992-1994 ...
At the time of her marriage, he was 35 and she was 25. The couple have three children. Hafez, named after Assad's father, was born in 2001, daughter Zein was born in 2003 and son Karim in 2004. Is it true she nearly...
His brother, Rifaat al-Assad, tried to seize power from him and was exiled. His eldest son was killed in a car accident in 1994, and he had three other children. Associated With His second eldest son, Bashar al-Assad, took over the presidency of Syria after his death in 2000, and ...
Children attend a class in a primary school at refugee camp in Idlib, a northwestern Syrian city where Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) had maintained an administration at the time when Syria's civil war front lines were frozen, Syria, December 17, 2024. (credit: REUTERS/UMIT BEKTAS) ...
On top of that, we're also focusing on children and teenagers, with schools from kindergarten to grade 12. The hope is that they will go on to universities in Syria and Turkey and come back to Al Amal City to contribute to the community in the near future. What challenges did you ...
What if Assad gets killed in action andal Qaedatakes over as Syria’s new leader? Obama, do you have answers to these questions? I guess not. One last question: how much money are you going to borrow from China to pay for your war against Assad?
Asma al-Assad is defending her husband’s brutal crackdown in Syria. See more despots’ first ladies.