Frudakis said the statue will show Ali in a slightly different pose — “a little bit more timeless” — than the iconic 1965 photograph “where he’s got this hand across his chest and he ...

A colossal statue of Hafez al-Assad was once a powerful symbol of Syria’s ruling regime, looming over the Damascus-Aleppo highway. Now, like that regime, it is toppled, and Syrians have been visiting ...

Footage provided to Storyful by Obada Jbara shows a typical scene, as a man and a young girl pose while standing on the head of the statue. The statue was toppled back in December soon after ...