The Syrian president’s illness was the “awaited moment” for his younger brother, who deployed his forces in Umayyad Square When Hafez al-Assad fell ill in
Khaddam talks about “the first sign of inheritance” from Assad In a meeting of the Qatari leadership held at the end of March, the Qatari
Rifaat followed “Big Brother” and expanded his influence in the army and the “Baath Party” The relationship between Hafez and Rifaat was like any two
Refaat schemed to take over power in Syria, but Hafez outwitted his younger brother, resulting in his exile It has been four decades since Syria’s
Syrian Vice President Abdul-Halim Khaddam, until the last moment (at least during my conversations with him in Paris after his defection from Bashar al-Assad’s regime),
Al Majalla reveals what went on in the room between the Syrian president and the US secretary of state to produce a historic peace agreement
Negotiations to make peace with Israel in exchange for the return of the Golan began with Clinton but fizzled out after Hafez al-Assad died. They
The US was reluctant to use military force to end Aoun’s rebellion against the Syrian-backed Lebanese government but eventually agreed for him to be sent
Al Majalla reveals the details of secret presidential discussions between Washington and Damascus during a time of flux in the Middle East as global dynamics
Two Months After the Ceasefire: Saddam’s Focus on Assad About two months after the ceasefire that marked the end of the Iran-Iraq War, specifically in
Al Majalla publishes the secret messages between the leaders with Arafat playing the role of the go-between On 21 April 1990, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
Al Majalla publishes secret documents and letters that reveal Al-Assad’s opposition to Saddam’s ‘Arab Council’ choosing to liaise with Saudi Arabia instead Ali Abdullah Saleh,
In his book “The Syrian-Iranian Alliance and the Region,” the late former Vice President of Syria, Abdel Halim Khaddam, revealed the story of the formation
Al Majalla reveals the last communications between Khaddam and Hafez al-Assad before he passed away and also the unheeded advice he gave to Bashar al-Assad
Newly available private papers give details of the secret 1987 meetings between the Iraqi and Syrian presidents, including the months of painstaking preparation Saddam Hussein
Syria acknowledged in the Adana Agreement that it had the leader of “Kurdistan” in its possession. This is a magazine story published on March 29,
Twenty-five years ago, Syrian authorities asked Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, to leave the country. Turkey was mobilising troops
Al Majalla obtains Damascus Documents which reveal how Iran founded Hezbollah in Lebanon in the 1980s The story of the relationship between Damascus and Tehran
“After facing obstacles in forming the government at the end of 2004 due to President Lahoud’s extension, President Hariri received a call from Speaker Nabih
Israel took advantage of the international and regional circumstances to pass an Israeli law allowing the annexation of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights since 1967
Expressed my Objection to Hafez al-Assad to Syria’s Political, Military Role in Lebanon Asharq Al-Awsat publishes three episodes of the memoirs of late Lebanese Prime
After seventeen years since the withdrawal of the Syrian army from Lebanon, it can be said, with a clear conscience, that Lebanon is finished. However,
The historian Omar Al-Armouti presented a document of utmost importance regarding the assassination of the former Prime Minister Wasfi Al-Tal in Cairo in 1971. This
Abdel Halim Khaddam: His forces besieged Damascus to announce his impending rule… So we took measures to prevent Syria from exploding. Syria, which Hafez al-Assad
I remember the end of 1994 when the first conference of Iraq’s neighboring countries was held in Tehran, attended by Syria, Turkey, and Iran only.
“Secret” messages and minutes of meetings transferred by the late Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam from his office to Paris, upon his departure from
Mubarak’s message to Saddam before the invasion was clear: “The blow will come to you… A change in the regime is what is needed.” In
Secret messages between the Syrian and Iraqi presidents revealed the formation of a higher committee that does not discuss political matters due to “lack of
The dissolution of the union between the Ba’athist regimes in Syria and Iraq did not become apparent immediately after the signing of the Joint National
In the second half of 1996, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad’s objective was to “prevent the overthrow of the Iraqi regime.” He focused on his
Asharq Al-Awsat Publishes Secret Letters between the Syrian, Iraqi Presidents in the mid-1990s In the mid-1990s, then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein initiated two secret communication
He told Khaddam in a report published by Asharq Al-Awsat: No one dares to address Saddam Amid progress in secret messages between Presidents Saddam Hussein
In the minutes of his meeting with Abdel Halim Khaddam and published by Asharq Al-Awsat as part of the messages of the Syrian and Iraqi
