By Stefan Schmitt Shortly after the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria in December 2024, reports emerged of mass graves being ...

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

The tomb of Hafez al-Assad has been engulfed in flames. "The grave of the cursed dictator has been set alight," reported pro-rebel journalist Nedal al-Amari on social media. Photos published by ...

A mass grave that could contain the remains ... exhibited signs of execution and torture. Al-Assad and his father Hafez, who preceded him as president and died in 2000, are accused of killing ...

In 1970, Hafez al-Assad took power in Syria after a coup he dubbed the “Corrective Movement.” This was after years of intense conflict within the Baath Party, beginning with the 1961 coup ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 1/4). Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the pan-Arab ideological movement.

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 2/4). The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, at any price. Winter 1986 ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 3/4). 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 always to have one of his sons ...