Before that, his father, Hafez Assad, was president for nearly three decades. The Assad family ruled Syria with an iron grip ...
The Assad regime cultivated ethnic and religious divides that threaten Syria's future even after the dynasty's fall.
Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the ...
Assad, combined to rule Syria for more than 50 years, always with an iron fist that crushed dissent and relied on the country ...
After Hafez’s passing in the summer of 2000, we clung to the hope that the torch he left behind would fall into more ...
No other building in the war-torn country of Syria symbolizes the sheer horror of the al-Assad family regime more, its former ...
The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...
The consequences were catastrophic. A devastating civil war broke out, resulting in more than 300,000 deaths (some estimates ...
Assad, Bashar al-Assad's father, is toppled in Homs:: Released December 8, 2024:: Homs, SyriaSocial media footage showed a ...
The scramble is on to define the future of Syria, quickly, to avert a war even more divisive than the conflict that has riven ...
Hafez al-Assad rose to power in a coup on November 13, 1970, marking the beginning of a new era in Syria. At the time, the country was characterised by political instability, with a series of ...
Syria has had a week like no other, rebels toppling President Bashar al-Assad and opening Saydnaya prison, while the hunt for ...