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 ...

Sharaa, also known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is the leader of the Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham, the rebel group ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

A worker tears down the pictures of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, his father Hafez al-Assad, the late Hezbollah leader Sayyed ...

On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...

Wafa Mustafa had long dreamed of returning to Syria but the absence of her father tarnished her homecoming more than a decade ...

Bashar al-Assad consistently portrayed himself as a ... adding that her daughter never knew her father. "I've never had the slightest compensation." Razan quickly regains composure before voicing ...

In the joyous, febrile weeks since Bashar al-Assad’s fall ... printed a profile of the father of five that said precisely that. Sitting near him in the cluttered office next door to the studio ...

Most were also anti-government activists, a family tradition that went back to the time of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father. Hafez seized power in 1970, and built a dictatorship that favored his ...

BASHAR al-Assad’s 24-year rule came to an abrupt end ... with statues of Assad and his father, Hafez, toppled in acts of defiance. Syria has been shattered by more than 13 years of conflict ...

He became president in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad ... the minimum age for candidates from 40 to 34, Bashar al-Assad’s age at the time. He was elected unopposed; the ...

At least 144 people, including 27 children, have been killed by landmines and unexploded remnants of war since Bashar al-Assad's regime fell in early December, according to the Halo Trust, an ...