Hafez

BEIRUT, Lebanon — After Jaber Abboud, a baker from Baniyas, Syria, first lashed out publicly at President Bashar al-Assad for

According to anti-Syrian regime activists,  President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law  Assef Shawkat who was  Syria’s deputy defense minister  was   buried on Wednesday

The brother-in-law of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad, who also is the troubled nation’s former intelligence chief, is dead after an

By: Thomas L. Friedman

Watching the Syrian Army pummel the Syrian town of Homs .. is the remake of a really bad movie that starred Bashar’s father, Hafez, exactly 30 years ago this month. I know. I saw the original.

As reports mount of defections in the Syrian military and the government staggers from the killing of soldiers and police officers, President Bashar al-Assad may turn increasingly to his brother, Maher,