Before that, his father, Hafez Assad, was president for nearly three decades. The Assad family ruled Syria with an iron grip ...

Syria’s new interim prime minister has pledged to protect minority rights and bring security to the country in an interview ...

Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the ...

In 1994, the line of succession changed in what seemed a promising way. Basil al-Assad, the “hero” and Hafez al-Assad’s ...

Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of former president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, ...

The Assad regime cultivated ethnic and religious divides that threaten Syria's future even after the dynasty's fall.

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...

The scramble is on to define the future of Syria, quickly, to avert a war even more divisive than the conflict that has riven ...

Syria has had a week like no other, rebels toppling President Bashar al-Assad and opening Saydnaya prison, while the hunt for ...

Assad, our nation’s “father,” wasn’t born of loyalty; it was a survival tactic, rooted in generational terror that he was ...

Assad’s atrocities in Syria will spark a bigger investigation than the Nuremberg trials in the aftermath of World War Two, ...