Forty-three years after the Assad government killed 40,000 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods, Hamawis reflect on their revolutionary history ...

Hafez Asad, the father of the deposed Syrian dictator, crushed a rebellion in that city without the number of victims or the ...

Alawites, from a branch of Shiite Islam, have an acute fear of reprisals because of their connection to the Assad clan, which ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad after a violent 13-year civil war was hailed as a new era for the embattled country, But, after just two months, many are fearful that they’ve just replaced one dangerous ...

NNA - At least ten people were killed in gunfire by gunmen who attacked the Alawite residents of Hama province in central Syria on Friday night, as reported by the Syrian ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – At least ten people were killed late Friday when armed assailants stormed a village inhabited by Alawites in Syria’s central Hama province, the Syrian Observatory for Human ...

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 ...

This was reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (Sohr), a monitoring centre based in London but with a wide information network across the territory. The incident occurred in the village ...

'When they entered our neighborhood, they took our young men,' Muazzez Kerricha tells Anadolu, breaking decades of silence on Hama Massacre after fall of Assad regime 82-year-old Muazzez Kerricha ...

Through old-fashioned dynastic succession ... In 1982, he obliterated the Syrian town of Hama to crush a revolt, killing at least 20,000—and possibly as many as 40,000—civilians.

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest ... "Nobody was spared death in Hama... women, men, children, ...