As Israel's war on Palestine continues to inflict suffering on Gaza, Arab monarchies busied themselves with welcoming US ...

Thirteen years after the death of Bassel Shahadeh, a prominent Damascene activist and a talented filmmaker killed by the Assad ... to al-Hafez, only Deyr Mousa [the monastic community founded by ...

Hafez Assad ruled as the 18th president of Syria from 1971 until he died in 2000, after suffering from a sudden heart attack. He was born in Al Qardahah, Syria, and passed away in Damascus before ...

Return of foot-and-mouth disease in Hungary rekindles farmers’ concerns Bosnia’s defiant Serb leader Dodik sentenced to one year in prison ...

In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his wife Asma (C) and their children Zein, left, Karim, right, and Hafez walk ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 3/4). Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was always to have one of his sons ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 1/4). Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the pan-Arab ideological movement.

In light of the December 8 ouster of Bashar al-Assad, "we can talk at last", he said. On February 2, 1982, amid an information blackout, Assad's father and then leader Hafez launched a crackdown ...

In light of the December 8 ouster of Bashar al-Assad, "we can talk at last", he said. On February 2, 1982, amid an information blackout, Assad's father and then leader Hafez launched a ... forbade ...

At the heart of Hafez al-Assad’s rise to power was Mohamed Deeb Daboul (known as Abu Saleem), a close confidant and office secretary of the late Syrian president since the late 1960s. Daboul was born ...

Rifaat al-Assad led forces that crushed Syrian revolt in 1982 Switzerland charged him with crimes against humanity BEIRUT, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader ...

Late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and US President Bill Clinton meet in Geneva ... Lebanese mourners hold up a sign during the funeral of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, ...