Dramatic footage has surfaced showing Syrian rebels toppling a statue of Hafez al-Assad, former president and father of Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus’ Al Arnous Square. The video also captures ...

Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. Born in Damascus, the younger Assad was just 5 years old when ...

Syrian rebels have set fire to the tomb of ex-President Bashar al-Assad's father in his former hometown. Images show the fighters standing next to the burning gravesite of Hafez al-Assad in the ...

Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

Bashar al-Assad is a Syrian politician and military officer who served as the 19th president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown by Syrian rebels in 2024. As president, Assad ...

Hafez al-Assad, the father, ruled from 1970. The bullet holes give you a sense of how he's remembered. Then, in the year 2000, the son, Bashar, continued the brutal police state.

Assad took power in an unopposed election in 2000 following the death of his father Hafez al-Assad, who rose from poverty to lead the Baath Party and seized power in 1970, becoming the country’s ...

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 ...

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar Assad, was ousted two weeks ago — vandals have sprayed variations ...

When Hafez al-Assad died in 2000, parliament quickly lowered the presidential age requirement from 40 to 34. Bashar’s elevation was sealed by a nationwide referendum, in which he was the only ...

Barbara Plett reports for the BBC that Bashar al-Assad officially becomes president of Syria today. Al-Assad takes the oath before parliament as president of Syria after winning an overwhelming ...