Hafez al-Assad and later Bashar winning by over 97%, while Saddam Hussein went so far as to claim 100% victories. The Iraqi Ba'ath ruled for 35 years starting in 1968, with Saddam personally ...

The chase will likely be long, if the yearslong attempts to recover the wealth secreted overseas by Saddam Hussein and ... decades since the patriarch, Hafez al-Assad, seized power in 1970.

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

The tomb of the former Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad has been set alight ... following the ousting of their respective dictators Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi. Western leaders have rallied ...

In 1970, Hafez al-Assad took power in Syria after a coup he dubbed the “Corrective Movement.” This was after years of intense conflict within the Baath Party, beginning with the 1961 coup ...

F or over 50 years, the Assad family ruled Syria with an iron grip, amassing a secret fortune while the country’s people endured poverty and war. The family patriarch, Hafez al-Assad, seized ...

AMMAN — The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party suspended its activities in Syria following the fall of the Assad regime and the escape of Bashar al-Assad ... execution of Saddam Hussein, and the ...