Middle East Eye9d
Massacres and resilience in Hama, Syria's insubordinate city
Cities across Syria have been pulverised by ... made to stand in a line along an execution wall. Mohammed Hisham Barazanko outside his studio in Hama (MEE/Daniel Hilton) “Somehow, the bullets ...
S A N A10d
Activities of “Hama is Beating Again” Carnival kick off
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 ...
France 2411d
40 years on, Hama survivors recall horror of Assad-era massacre
Hama (Syria) (AFP) – Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers ... women, men, children, people young and old, were lined up against the wall and shot," she said. Bassam al-Saraj, 79, said his brother ...
Al-Monitor12d
40 years on, Hama survivors recall horror of Assad-era massacre
Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982 ... "Nobody was spared death in Hama... women, men, children, people young and old, were ...
Anadolu Ajansi10d
After fall of Assad regime, Hama Massacre survivors break decades of silence
Forty-three years ago, Syria’s former Baath regime carried out one of the country’s deadliest atrocities — the 1982 Hama Massacre ... He was injured after a wall collapsed on him.
Wall Street Journal8d
Syria Has a New Government—or Does It?
Photo: Mario Cantu/Andrea Renault/Zuma Press/Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Fortune Media Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the organization that overthrew Syria’s Assad regime, has “assumed the ...
Anadolu Ajansi3d
Syria's new administration makes progress on internal security, easing global isolation within 1st 2 months
Several elements of the fallen regime were neutralized in provinces such as Damascus, Homs, Latakia, Tartus, Aleppo, and Hama. Syrian intelligence reorganized The country’s General Intelligence ...
Middle East Eye6d
How Syrian mutinies and betrayal sunk Iran's support for Assad
Fighting concentrated around Qamhana, a town 8km north of Hama, and the military base on the nearby Jabal Zine al-Abedine. Here, the Syrian army and its allies fought their hardest, holding off ...
Al-Monitor on MSN6d
Iraq's famed 'hunchback' of Mosul rebuilt brick by brick
The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to ...
Digital Journal12d
40 years on, Hama survivors recall horror of Assad-era massacre
On February 2, 1982, amid an information blackout, Assad’s father and then leader Hafez launched a crackdown in Hama in central Syria against ... lined up against the wall and shot,” she ...
Washington Examiner8d
Syrian Civil War: What led to the fall of the regime
On Dec. 8, Syrian rebels entered Damascus ... most notably in the crushing of the 1982 Islamist Hama uprising. He staffed the military high command with fellow Alawites, in a majority Sunni ...