Jerrold M. PostRuthie Pertsis
WhenBashar Assadinherited power following the death of his father in June 2000, Syria entered an exclusive club. There are very few countries in the world where the presidency has been directly passed from father to son. Among them, only three countries have father-son pairs who have ruled un...
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...
suburbs Saturday, al-Golani visited the sprawling Umayyad Mosque and called Assad’s fall “a victory to the Islamic nation.” Calling himself by his given name, Ahmad al-Sharaa, and not his nom de guerre, he told hundreds of people that Assad had made Syria “a ...
Sometimes the boys ask to play rebel or field hospital instead. As rebels, they kill police andshabiha, the hated pro-Assad thugs. When they play field hospital, they often reenact what happened to their mom. “Calm down. You will get better soon. They’re going to give you a new han...
BEIRUT (AP) — La última vez que el presidente sirio Bashar Assad estuvo en serios problemas fue hace 10 años, en el apogeo de la guerra civil del país, cuando sus fuerzas perdieron el control de varias partes de Alepo, la ciudad más grande, y sus
alongside Mohammad, while, following her death, the government produced portraits of Assad's mother surrounded by a halo. Syrian officials were made to refer to him as the 'sanctified one'. This strategy of creating a cult of personality was pursued further by Hafez's son Bashar Al-Assad. ...
President Assad: There's a big difference. It doesn't matter, how many years, the question-- Charlie Rose: Well, it does matter. I mean-- President Assad: No, what's matter for us, do the Syrians support, these two presidents, doesn't matter is they are father and son. We don'...
Aunque muchos evitan hablar con la prensa, algunos dejan entrever el espíritu que guía estos días clave: unidad sin proselitismo, diálogo sin presión, fe sin estridencias Beef Wellington mortal: la macabra trama de una anfitriona ac...
Bashar Al-Assad's political career — An undated photo shows current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, second from left, posing with his family. Al-Assad's parents, then-President Hafez Assad and his wife, Anisa, in front, and his siblings in the second row; Maher, Bassel, Majd and Bus...