The family patriarch, Hafez al-Assad, seized power in 1970 and created a system of wealth hoarding that his son, Bashar al-Assad, carried forward after taking control in 2000. Over decades ...

Journalists sometimes hear shocking statements—ones they lock away in their memory, fearing their repercussions. Some are too ...

The mausoleum of late Syrian leader Hafez Al Assad, father of deposed president Bashar Al Assad, has become a site of celebration after rebels seized the town of Qardaha in the coastal Latakia ...

The tomb of the former Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad has been set alight, according to numerous reports, just days after an uprising swept his son Bashar from power. Images taken from Qardaha ...

The Assad family has built a broad network of investments and business interests over the decades since the patriarch, Hafez al-Assad, seized power in 1970. Among the international purchases made ...

Hafez al-Assad died in 2000. His son, Bashar al-Assad, who took over power from his father, fled Damascus last weekend after almost 25 years of rule when the rebels announced the end of his regime.

Visuals from Damascus showed locals celebrating as they stood on a torn down and smashed statue of his father Hafez al-Assad. Elsewhere they dragged the head of another statue along the road and ...

Rebels declared the end of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule on Sunday, sparking celebrations in Syrian cities. Crowds cheered and damaged a statue of Hafez al-Assad, the former President and ...

When Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Sunday ... Before Assad took office in 2000, his late father Hafez was president for ...

Syria’s security forces arrested a former intelligence chief Thursday who is accused of carrying out hundreds of assassinations under ex-regime leader Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian news agency SANA ...

The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago. A child in Hama's city centre, where the Baath party government killed tens ...