Documents circulating on social media claiming Syria's former first lady Asma al-Assad was a spy for British intelligence ...

How did the Assads come to power? Hafez al-Assad was one of a generation of Arab strongmen – among them Muammar Gaddafi in ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

The funeral of Bashar al-Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad. His "departure" was much more stately and calm than his son’s retreat this past week. For some 30 years, he had ruled Syria with an ...

In the Jermana suburb, just ten kilometers from central Damascus, demonstrators brought down the statue of Hafez al-Assad, the late father of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday.

There are four main domestic reasons for the end of the half-century rule of the Al-Assad family in Syria, writes Walid M. Abdelnasser ...

Rebel fighters surround the burning coffin of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria for 29 years - Aaref Watad/AFP via Getty Images Rebel fighters have set fire to the coffin of Bashar al-Assad’s ...

What is life without al-Assad? I don’t know yet. I am only three days in. I was born in the mid-1980s under the rule of Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar al-Assad, our ousted president.

Syrian rebels have desecrated the tomb of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s father, former Syrian President Hafez al Assad. Hafez al Assad ruled Syria with an iron fist from 1970 to 2000 ...

On Dec. 13, 2024, oppositional forces declared Syria free from the regime of Bashir al-Assad – ending more than 60 years of ...

The tomb of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez was torched in his hometown of Qardaha, AFP footage taken Wednesday showed, with opposition fighters in fatigues and young men ...