Hafez al-Assad, one of the figures of the 1966 coup, carried out a counter coup in November 1970 against his army comrades and built a regime underpinned by absolute power, a cult-of-personality ...

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 ...

Daddy Dearest: Inside the Mind of Bashar al-Assad Published Mar 05, 2013 at 12:00 AM EST Updated Mar 03, 2013 at 10:13 PM EST A Free Syrian Army fighter steps poster of Bashar Al-Assad in Aleppo ...

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, ... Syria remained a de facto dictatorship. 2011 And Beyond .

Rebels set light to the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, the father of the ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in Qardaha on Wednesday. ... Nous vous conseillons de modifier votre mot de passe.

The long nightmare of the Assad family dictatorship has come to a sudden end. Hafez al-Assad seized power in Damascus in a 1970 coup, and now, 54 years later, his son Bashar has fled to Moscow for ...

On the eve of his capital’s fall, Bashar al-Assad climbed into a Russian armoured vehicle with his eldest son Hafez and drove away, leaving relatives, friends and loyalists frantically searching ...