Hafez al-Assad
Syrian rebels swap officer for comrades' bodies
...been a common practice in the crackdown on the revolt against 42 years of rule by Assad and his late father, Hafez al-Assad, activists and human rights organizations say. The say that...
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Taking Syria's elections seriously
...a gambit to rebuild the recently destabilized belief that the regime is invincible. When former President Hafez al-Assad died in 2000, I asked a Syrian friend why the immediate reaction was...

