Hafez Assad, was president for nearly three decades. The Assad family ruled Syria with an iron grip, locking up those who ...

"Perhaps Islamic rule will come … and the regime will become totalitarian again," SDC adviser Riad Darar told Newsweek.

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar ...

After Hafez’s passing in the summer of 2000, we clung to the hope that the torch he left behind would fall into more ...

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

Asma al-Assad grew up in Acton, west London and, after attending a private girls' school, graduated from King's College ...

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

Pictures show that Hafez’s coffin might have been dragged out of the grave and set on fire. The mausoleum also houses the ...

Syrian rebels set fire to the mausoleum containing the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, located in the Latakia heartland of Assad's ...

The tomb of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez was torched in his hometown of Qardaha, footage taken ...

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