The son of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad posted about his family’s final days in Damascus before the rebel takeover ...

For decades, schoolchildren began their day with a song of praise to Hafez al-Assad, “our eternal leader.” He died in 2000. He was succeeded by his son Bashar, who received similar praises.

Series'The al-Assad saga' (4/4). The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the heir chose the status quo and ...

SHOCKING pictures have revealed Bashar al-Assad's trove ... The fall of Assad ignited jubilant celebrations across Syria, with statues of Assad and his father, Hafez, toppled in acts of defiance.

the late Bassel (left), and Bashar, in Bikrama, in the Alawite mountains, Syria, on October 5, 2008. ED KASHI / VII / REDUX-RÉA Hafez al-Assad demanded a return to the situation that had ...

In light of the December 8 ouster of Bashar al-Assad, "we can talk at last", he said. On February 2, 1982, amid an information blackout, Assad's father and then leader Hafez launched a crackdown in ...

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Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s father, who ruled the country from 1971 to 2000, founded his reign on Baathist socialist ideology. He helped expand agriculture by subsidizing the ever-growing ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

For decades, statues of Hafez al-Assad symbolized power and repression. Today, they fall as Syrians reclaim public spaces from the shadows of dictatorship.