A massacre was committed in the village of Arza in the western countryside of the city of Hama, and activists circulated on virtual networking sites the names of some of the people who were killed in ...

"Gunmen carried out a massacre on Friday night, killing 10 civilians in the village of Arzah," in northern Hama province, "inhabited by members of the Alawite community," reported the Syrian ...

On February 2, 1982, amid an information blackout, Assad's father and then leader Hafez launched a crackdown in Hama in central Syria against an armed Muslim Brotherhood revolt. The banned ...

Hama (Syria) (AFP) – Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan's rule ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan's rule. "I've never really talked ...