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Analysis: Syria, Lebanon embark on long healing process to repair relations
A rare opportunity for Lebanon and Syria to repair their relations and move beyond decades of political domination and ...
Khaleej Times on MSN16h
Fall of Bashar Al Assad: How did he escape Syria?
Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and ...
Syrians have more freedom after Assad, but could they soon lose it?
Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from ...
The New York Times4d
Assad Defaced: Syrians Destroy a Dictator’s Icons
When Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, the iconography of posters, billboards and statues emblematic of his family’s brutal decades-long grip on the country also came down. The images of ...
Khaleej Times on MSN3d
Syria leader in Qatar for first time since fall of Assad's regime
Syria's new president arrived in Qatar on Tuesday, state media said, for his first official visit to the Gulf state, a key ...
Jurist12d
Syria welcomes UN Human Rights Council resolution demanding investigation into former Assad regime
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday passed a resolution demanding accountability for violations and abuses by ...
The New York Times6d
Memories of the Past Will Define Syria’s Future
When I was a child, I remember, my father scolded my brother for telling his friends that Hafez al-Assad had imprisoned my uncles. When his son Bashar al-Assad took over his vast empire of ...
Al Jazeera on MSN7d
Syria and South Korea establish formal diplomatic relations
South Korea and Syria have formally established diplomatic relations, in another milestone for the transitional government of ...