A wide array of Western sanctions are debilitating Syria’s economy and threatening its recovery after 14 years of civil war. The United States and European Union both imposed sanctions against former ...

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 ...

QARDAHA, Syria — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Rebel fighters surround the burning coffin of Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria for 29 years - Aaref Watad/AFP via Getty Images Rebel fighters have set fire to the coffin of Bashar al-Assad’s ...

In the Mazzeh 86 neighborhood, west of the Syrian capital Damascus, the names of many shops, grocery stores, and public ...

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 ...