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One powerful, tight-knit family has controlled Syria for four decades.
Features Last Modified: 18 Dec 2012 13:28 GMT
Syrian witnesses tell human rights investigators of summary executions and mass torture.
Middle East Last Modified: 19 Aug 2011 14:39 GMT
Nearly 30 years after a massacre in the Syrian city, the ghosts of Hama have come back to haunt the Assad regime.
Features Last Modified: 10 Jul 2011 19:21 GMT
A look at the royal wedding fascination and what it says about the popularity of the British royal family.
Frost Over the World Last Modified: 01 May 2011 10:43 GMT
Hamas activists have ambushed the car of a security commander loyal to the Palestinian president, shooting him several times in the legs in the latest confrontation between the two factions.
Archive Last Modified: 14 Jun 2006 10:33 GMT

Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad who went into exile after a failed coup, says he wants to return home to remove the government led by his nephew.

Archive Last Modified: 28 May 2005 16:21 GMT
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