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Syrian officials and dignitaries from foreign countries Hafez al-Assad , the 18th president of Syria , died from a heart attack on 10 June 2000 at the age of 69. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His funeral was held three days later in Damascus , and he was buried in a mausoleum in his hometown Qardaha in Latakia Governorate , beside his eldest son Bassel al-Assad ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of Syrians marched through central Damascus on Thursday in the funeral procession of a well-known anti-government figure, chanting calls for justice for the activist who was killed in prison during the last days of President Bashar Assad’s rule.
After dedicating his life to fighting the regime of Assad, Mazen Al-Hamada did not live to see it fall. A symbol of resilience and courage, the famous Syrian activist was found dead in the ...
Her funeral was held in Al-Malikiyah on 14 October 2019. [18] In January 2020, the BBC's Arabic service published an investigation into the death of Hevrin Khalaf which found that a sub-group of the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army, Ahrar al-Sharqiya, had extrajudiciarily murdered Khalaf on the M4 Motorway, at the Tirwaziya checkpoint. Ahrar ...
Hafez al-Assad was born on 6 October, 1930, in Qardaha, a town in the Alawite State in the north-west of Syria, all within the French-ruled Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (Qardaha is nowadays within the Latakia Governorate of the Syrian Arab Republic); he was born into the Kalbiyya tribe of Alawites.
At least 16 people were killed when bombs hit a funeral in rebel-held Aleppo, according to activists. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
Iran held a funeral Thursday for a high-ranking general of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria. Hundreds of mourners accompanied the flag ...
The head of a U.S.-based Syrian advocacy organization on Monday said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the former government of ousted ...