Syria and the Assad Family Quotes

“under the command of General Ali Haydar, besieged the city for 27 days, bombarding it with heavy artillery and tank [fire], before invading it and killing 30,000 or 40,000 of the city's citizens – in addition to the 15,000 missing who have not been found to this day, and the 100,000 expelled.”
― Charles River Editors, Syria and the Assad Family: The History Behind Bashar al-Assad’s Rise to Power and the Civil War

“3). Although he always towed a strong line against Israel, which included supporting anti-Israeli groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, he also tried to make peaceful overtures to the West, most notably his country’s participation in Operation Desert Storm in 1991 against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq (Lesch 2012, 11).”
― Charles River Editors, Syria and the Assad Family: The History Behind Bashar al-Assad’s Rise to Power and the Civil War