Western sanctions were part of an effort to pressure al-Assad to change his actions, and Western policymakers argue that they ...

Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

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

Syria’s new interim prime minister has pledged to protect minority rights and bring security to the country in an interview with Al Jazeera, amid reports that the tomb of Hafez al-Assad ...

Syrian rebels have desecrated the tomb of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s father, former Syrian President Hafez al Assad. Hafez al Assad ruled Syria with an iron fist from 1970 to 2000 ...

Rebels destroyed the tomb of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, father of the recently ousted president, by lighting it on fire in northwestern Syrian town of Qardaha, wire photos showed Wednesday.

REUTERS Al-Assad began serving as head of Syria in 2000 following the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, who had ruled as president since 1971.

The U.S. on Monday eased some restrictions on Syria’s transitional government after Islamist insurgents ousted Syrian leader ...

Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of former president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, in a symbolic move marking the end of the Assad family’s 54-year rule.

a Soviet ally who ruled Syria for three decades and helped propel a minority Alawite population to key political, social and military posts. Like the son who succeeded him, Hafez al-Assad ...

Cliche has it that behind every great man stands a woman—and as it happens, the same also applies to murderous dictators.

Rebel fighters stand with the flag of the revolution on the burnt gravesite of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum in the family's ancestral village of Qardaha in the western ...