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Topic: Hafez Assad

May 12, 2013
1:30 pm

The late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin together with the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the president's palace in Alexandria, Egypt. September 19, 1993. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90

Rabin told Mubarak peace with Syria was ‘at hand’

Two weeks before the prime minister was assassinated in 1995, he telephoned the Egyptian president to reveal the breakthrough, says ex-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy

By Times of Israel staff

March 15, 2013
9:35 pm

The Russian warship Varyag (photo credit: CC BY randychiu, Flickr)

Three Russian warships headed for Syrian port

Hundreds of soldiers aboard, yet no information so far regarding the intent of their journey

By Times of Israel staff

March 7, 2013
1:38 pm

Syrian business tycoon Firas Tlass (photo credit: Youtube image)

Assad’s Syria sold Israel oil, businessman claims

Firas Tlass, son of a former defense minister, says Damascus’s outward hostility toward Israel was a front for political and economic deals

By Elhanan Miller

March 5, 2013
11:52 am

Residents of Raqqa topple statue of Syrian President Bashar Assad's father and predecessor, Hafez Assad, on Monday, February 4, 2013. (photo credit: image capture from YouTube video uploaded by Norasaman9)

In first, Syrian rebels set to take control of major city

Fighting still continues in Raqqa following capture of local governor; incident follows locals toppling statue of Hafez Assad

By AP and Ilan Ben Zion

February 15, 2013
10:03 pm

A screenshot from the Australian television program on Zygier. (Screenshot: ABC news via YouTube)

The two glaring questions at the heart of the Zygier affair

What was the alleged crime that justified the Mossad agent’s arrest and incarceration in solitary confinement, and how did he manage to kill himself in Israel’s most secure jail cell?

By Mitch Ginsburg

February 12, 2013
1:39 am

A statue of Hafez Assad, father of Syrian President Bashar Assad, burns after being set on fire by rebel fighters inside the grounds of the General Company of the Euphrates Dam in Al-Raqqa, Syria, Monday, Feb. 11 (photo credit: AP/Ugarit News)

Rebels gain control of Syria’s water flow

Islamist group captures country’s largest dam, enables work to carry on undisturbed

By Bassem Mroue

January 25, 2013
6:05 am

The Assad family in 1994. Front: Hafez Assad and Anisa Makhlouf. Rear, left to right: Maher, Bashar, Bassel, Majid, and Bushra Assad (photo credit: via Wikipedia)

Assad’s mother fled Syria, US ambassador confirms

Anisa Makhlouf reportedly reunites with her daughter, Bushra Assad, in the United Arab Emirates

By Times of Israel staff

January 6, 2013
4:57 am

The Russian warship Varyag (photo credit: CC BY randychiu, Flickr)

Fleet of Russian warships reportedly en route to Syria to head off a Western attack

Israel and the US said to be mulling a military campaign to secure chemical weapons held by Moscow’s civil war-ravaged ally

By Times of Israel staff

December 26, 2012
10:36 pm

Neck and neck with the greatest tyrants of the 20th century? Syrian President Bashar Assad (photo credit: Shutterstock)

French name Assad ‘man of the year’

Syrian president and ‘long-necked ophthalmologist’ joins likes of Hitler, Stalin among ruthless despots to get year-end accolades

By Raphael Ahren

December 7, 2012
3:06 am

Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani, in Damascus, Syria, October 2012 (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Assad may be preparing to take chemical weapons with him in a retreat from Damascus, Israeli expert says

Dictator’s own father said to have used hydrogen cyanide against Muslim Brotherhood activists when killing 20,000 in Hama in 1982

By Mitch Ginsburg

November 10, 2012
12:39 am

Syrian regime opponent George Sabra attends the Syrian National Council's Executive Office elections in Doha, Qatar, on Friday. He won the post of president. (photo credit: AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

Main Syrian opposition bloc elects left-wing Christian as president

Communist-turned-social democrat George Sabra may counter Western fears about Islamist influences in the Syrian National Council

November 5, 2012
12:45 pm

Riyad Hijab (photo credit: CC BY Al Manar TV, Wikipedia)

Syrian air force pounds Damascus neighborhoods

Former prime minister, who defected, says Assad will carry on fighting come what may

By Stuart Winer

October 11, 2012
1:25 am

Jewish Agency chairman and former cabinet minister Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Courtesy JAFI)

‘Too bad the Arab Spring didn’t happen 20 years ago,’ says Natan Sharansky

There will always be anti-Semitism in the Middle East, but the more democratic Arab states become, the less dangerous they are for Israel, the Jewish Agency chairman asserts

By Raphael Ahren

September 21, 2012
11:28 pm

Al Nas TV guest claims Bashar Assad is Jewish. (photo credit: Channel 10 screenshot)

Assad’s a Jew, claims Egypt TV guest

Dictator’s family descends from Iranian Jewish origin, so-called expert asserts, in interview on station that also first broadcast Arabic-dubbed clip of anti-Islam film

By Times of Israel staff

September 9, 2012
2:15 pm

Two Free Syrian Army fighter evacuate a wounded comrade in Aleppo, September 7 (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)

Aleppo pummeled as sectarian war looms ever nearer

An Arab editor bemoans the exploitation of female Syrian refugees; Egypt and Israel are on the same page on Sinai

By Elhanan Miller

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