Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis Deepens in Post-Assad Era
Before Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on protesters during the 2011 Arab Spring, which spiraled into the catastrophic civil war that continues today, his father Hafez al-Assad had already earned a reputation for ruthless repression. Together with his brother, he was responsible for quashing a 1982 uprising in Hama, where tens of thousands of people were … Read more