He risked everything to stand up to Assad, but he never got to see the regime fall
Nobody had heard from Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada after he was detained in Damascus in 2020. On Tuesday, his family ...
The Independent9d
Inside Assad’s Captagon drug-smuggling empire and how it funded brutal Syrian regime
Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary ... sanctioned were two cousins of Bashar al-Assad and Khalid Qaddour, a close associate ...
How a lightning assault by Syrian rebels toppled Assad’s regime in less than two weeks
Assad’s military allies Russia, Iran, and Lebanon’s Hezbollah failed to mobilise the kind of decisive firepower that had propped him up for years ...
Channel 4 News14d
Assad falls: should it be a moment of joy or fear for Syria?
Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus to Russia where Vladimir ... joined by Syrian filmmaker and journalist Waad Al-Kateab, whose documentary For Sama won numerous awards and was nominated for ...
Al Jazeera English6d
The Lost Souls of Syria: The fight for justice using the ‘Caesar files’
They were presented to the United Nations as evidence of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s killing ... families turned to courts in Europe. This documentary film follows two of these cases for ...
France 2411d
Fall of Assad reveals the death of Mazen al-Hamada, symbol of the regime’s atrocities
The body of Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada was found Monday in a military hospital morgue near Damascus, according to a ...
Irish Examiner13d
The day I met the first lady of hell: Bashar al-Assad's wife, Asma
Bashar al-Assad looked meek. He’d been studying ophthalmology ... I called Barbet Schroeder, who’d made the ultimate documentary about a dictator, General Idi Amin Dada.
The New York Times11d
Revenge and Unease Shadow Effort to Restore Order
Yasin Akgul/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Aleppo, SyriaPeople celebrating the ouster of Bashar al-Assad ... torture under the Assad regime in an award-wining 2017 documentary.
The New York Times15d
Rebels Declare Damascus Free of al-Assad
Rebel fighters near a defaced portrait of President Bashar al-Assad in Daraa ... on Iran’s proxy militant groups who was for years a documentary filmmaker on the battlefields of Syria, said ...
The Straits Times14d
In the Syrian regime’s hour of need, its patron Iran hits the exits
For decades, Iran has expended much blood and money in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, helping him survive ... groups who was for years a documentary filmmaker on the battlefields ...