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Thousands of people have poured into the streets of Syria’s central city of Hama to mark one year since forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad were expelled days before the longtime ruler’s ouster. The ...
News Syria » Hama » Life: Rifaat al-Assad, perpetrator of Syria's 1982 Hama massacre, dies at 88
Rifaat al-Assad, the younger brother of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and widely known as the “butcher of Hama,” has died at the age of 88. According to a Reuters report, Assad died in the ...
News Syria » Hama » Life: Syrian insurgents capture central city of Hama in severe setback to the Syrian president
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian insurgents swept into the central city of Hama on Thursday and government forces withdrew, dealing another major blow to Syrian President Bashar Assad days after insurgents ...
News Syria » Hama » Life: How Syria’s 2,000-year-old Christian roots are being torn out
Syria recorded the largest single year jump in Christian persecution in the history of Open Doors World Watch List ...
News Syria » Hama » Life: 4,500-year-old baby rattles discovered in Syria — made from clay. See the toys
In the ancient city of Hama, Syria, parents thousands of years ago went through the same motions as those today. Getty Images/iStock Photo In an ancient city in western Syria, the remains of an ...
News Syria » Hama » Life: Syria opens Homs-Hama highway after near seven-year closure due to war
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government re-opened the highway between the cities of Homs and Hama on Wednesday a month after its forces retook a rebel-held pocket that had straddled the road that was ...
News Syria » Hama » Life: Syria’s Rifaat al-Assad, the ‘butcher of Hama’, dies at 88
Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the “butcher of Hama” for crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before unsuccessfully ...