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 ...

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 ...

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.

Assad, 85, had lived in exile, mostly in France, since the mid-1980s, after being accused of trying to seize power from his brother, then-President Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father.

Hafez al-Assad, when challenged by his brother Rifaat after a brief stay in hospital, in November 1983, eventually resolved the internal crisis – the most serious one in his regime's history ...

Throughout the day, we've been bringing you updates from Qardhaha in north-western Syria.. It's the site of the tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez, who ruled the country with an iron fist 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 ...

I was born in the mid-1980s under the rule of Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar al-Assad, our ousted president. I learned early that being a good citizen meant not thinking. If you did dare to ...