BEIRUT — The images of Bashar al-Assad's fall bear some resemblance to the iconic scenes of Saddam Hussein's collapse more than 20 years ago. The toppling of statues of Assad, his father, and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Rebel fighters stand next to the burning gravesite of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum in the family's ancestral village of Qardaha in the western Latakia province on ...

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 ...