The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...

The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago. A child in Hama's city centre, where the Baath party government killed tens ...

Syria’s security forces arrested a former intelligence chief Thursday who is accused of carrying out hundreds of assassinations under ex-regime leader Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian news agency SANA ...

SANA said meanwhile that security forces had detained Ibrahim Huweija, a general who was "accused of hundreds of assassinations" under the rule of Assad's father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad.

The late Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, became the most powerful Alawite when he seized control of the country in a 1970 coup after rising within the ostensibly secular Baath Party.