A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...
Economic shock therapy: plans include privatizations and slashing public sector jobs Reforms designed to avoid chaos of ...
Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist. He wasn’t ...
There is now a major shift to a competitive free-market economy, Syria’s new economy minister said. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Residents of Syria's Bayirbucak region seek justice, return of lands confiscated for palace construction since 1974 - Anadolu ...
personal belongings of the Assad family remain scattered across the mansion. Photographs of Bashar’s late brother, Basil al-Assad, who died in a 1994 car accident, as well as children’s ...
Wafa Mustafa had long dreamed of returning to Syria but the absence of her father tarnished her homecoming more than a decade ...
Assad’s father, Hafez Assad, had been cultivating Bashar’s oldest brother Basil as his successor ... Bashar married Asma al-Akhras, a British-born woman who is known for being attractive ...
Thousands of Syrian refugees in Turkiye face uncertainty about returning home due to economic, security, and infrastructure ...
DAMASCUS: Syria's new leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, including plans to fire a ...